by John C. Welchman
- Author(s)
- John C. Welchman
- Publication
- Zürich : JRP | Ringier, 2016
- Scope
- 160 Pages, illustrated, 29 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783037644683
This reference monograph reveals the scope of Guillaume Bijl's thinking and art during the last four decades. The book spans the early "Treatments" (1975–1978) to the on-going "Transformation Installations," "Situation Installations," "Compositions Trouvées," and "Sorry" bodies of work. Grounded in and marked by a number of economic, social, and cultural conditions, Bijl's works are a stimulating reflection and synthesis of our current times. As John C. Welchman writes: "Bijl's work made important contributions to many of the issues addressed by the Western neo-avant-garde art world from the 1970s to now—questions about performativity and spectacle; elitism and "lowness"; simulation and "commodity art"; life-scaled corporeality and the uncanny; appropriation, archives and the postmodern readymade; negotiations with selfhood and artifice; and the tension between work situated in art institutional and public spaces."
- Person as subject
- Guillaume Bijl
- Keywords
- installation , sculpture
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
