Bouquet film / video 9
The electronic paintings of Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt

La Centrale, from Wednesday, October 29 to Sunday, November 02, 2025

For three months, a program of films and videos offers a journey through half a century of moving images, exploring some of the possible articulations between sound, music and image. Through a series of thematic "bouquets" or ones centered on a particular filmmaker or video artist, the program presents the work of emblematic or little-known artists, video art pioneers or film thurifers.

In a dialogue between projected works (room 1) and works on cathode-ray monitors (room 2), between formal, ethnographic and political approaches to sound, the program highlights the uses and practices of the musician's portrait, performance and soundscapes.

Each week, the films and videos disseminate discreet touches, apparitions and motifs, connections between bouquets and nods to the Biennial program: Paganini, a Sony Walkman, Jean-Luc Godard revisited by John Zorn, salt deserts, the Bachmann / Ceresole couple, brass bands and more.

A proposal by Maxime Guitton.

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Room 2

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Livinus van de Bundt & Jeep van de Bundt, Moirée

1970-75, 6'12'', video, color, sound
Courtesy of LI-MA, Amsterdam

Livinus van de Bundt's images and Jeep van de Bundt's music are based on the same rhythmic processes and express a common identity. Blue blocks with red outlines appear on a green background. From the top right-hand corner, they begin to pulverize, then reform, creating a grid, adopting a zigzag pattern and taking on new colors. These waves of visual elements, multiplying, transforming and sliding, evolve in perfect synchronicity with the musical rhythm; they are causally linked.

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Livinus van de Bundt & Jeep van de Bundt, Percussion VI

1977, 2'14'', video, color, sound
Courtesy of LI-MA, Amsterdam

As with Moirée, in Percussie VI, Livinus van de Bundt adds a new dimension to visual art. Using his synthesizer and image generator, he paints electronically, with light, movement and sound, collaborating with his son Jeep. Unconcerned with the aesthetics of television, he uses a lozenge to create a moving shape, in which the primary colors of the video (red, green and blue) pulse in time with the music.

Livinus van de Bundt

(1909-1979)
Lived in Zeist-The Hague

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Jeep van de Bundt

Born in 1951
Based in Fort Lauderdale (US)

Livinus van de Bundt, painter and printmaker, was one of the first artists to build his own video synthesizer and image generator, paving the way for the creation of "electronic paintings" that would mark the beginnings of video art in the Netherlands. He called on his son, musician Jeep van de Bundt, to create a dialogue between sound, color and form.