GUILLAUME BIJL (B)

Antwerp-based artist Guillaume Bijl is best known for his 'Compositions Trouvées' – an allusion to Duchamp – and for his sizeable installations, such as life-size hairdressing salons, billiard rooms, driving schools and department stores. These large installations resulted from Bijl’s dissatisfaction with the cerebral conceptual art of the 1970s. In his installations he literally reconstructed everyday reality, thus questioning the artificial values of modern-day society as well as art as an institution itself. Particularly when his work is placed outside the confines of a gallery or museum, the artistic becomes virtually indistinguishable from the banale. Bijl himself claims to exhibit the décors of the modern age.

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