Guillaume Bijl
Guillaume Bijl

by John C. Welchman

Auteur(s)
John C. Welchman
Uitgever
Zürich : JRP | Ringier, 2016
Omvang
160 p., geïllustreerd, 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."


Persoon als onderwerp
Guillaume Bijl
Trefwoorden
installation , sculpture
Opmerkingen
Incl. bibliographical references and Index.