Guillaume Bijl
Guillaume Bijl (born March 19, 1946 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian conceptual artist .
life and work
Matrazen-Discount , Kunsthalle Münster 2002
Composition trouvée , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam 2010
Groetend Admiraal Koppel , Museum aan de Stroom , Antwerp 2016
Mona Lisa , Stedelijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Hasselt (Belgium) 2017
Bijl's father was a dock worker, his mother worked for a telephone company. In the 1960s, the autodidact turned to painting and took a liking to impressionism, expressionism, surrealism and abstract art. While studying economics, Bijl worked for a bank in Brussels for a while. After dropping out of his studies, his parents sent him to a vocational school in Antwerp. Bijl worked part-time in the art department of a bookstore in Antwerp for almost 10 years. In the late 1960s he studied at the Royal Institute for Theater, Cinema, and Sound (RITCS) at the Erasmusho School in Brussels, which he gave up after only one year to devote himself entirely to art. In total, Bijl was active as a painter for 14 years before his first installation was created in 1979.
Bijl's installations address pseudo-historical spaces and typical spaces of the leisure and consumer society. His work is a critical and ironic examination of cultural tourism. In the 1980s he installed scenes from offices, supermarkets, hospital corridors and fitness centers in art spaces.
In 2007, Bijl won the Sparda Art Prize NRW of the Art, Culture and Social Foundation of Sparda-Bank West in Wuppertal , after which his installation A New Successful Day was installed at the end of Herzogstraße in downtown Elberfeld the following year . The sculpture shows a man wearing a suit doing a handstand. The hanging tie and the adjacent suitcase were stolen from the object by vandals several times.
Since 2014, his Feestelijke beeldenreeks (festive picture series), consisting of six sculptures, has stood on Europaplatz in front of Amsterdam's RAI Exhibition and Congress Center . The group consists of six individual components and each shows two stilt walkers , illusionists with a floating maiden and oversized pageant figures with a bearer in front of them.
In April 2015, Bijl's work Archaeological Site (A Sorry Installation) from 2007, a fictitious, seemingly unreal excavation site of a half-exposed church tower in the middle of a deep, dug hole in Münster, was filled in after consultation with curator Kasper König , after responsibility for the object had been removed after the exhibition Sculpture.Projects was “in a state of suspension”.
In the Leopoldspark of the Belgian city of Ostend , Bijl's statue of a dog named Jack has been standing since 2018, who is surrounded by four other dogs, three of which are looking at the statue. The work is entitled Sorry . The installation is intended to commemorate the British sniffer dogs of the First World War.
From 2001 to 2011 Bijl was a professor of sculpture at the Art Academy in Münster . The artist lives in Antwerp.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1988 Biennale di Venezia - Venice
- 1989 Isy Brachot Gallery , Brussels
- 1992 Documenta IX , Kassel
- 1996 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst , Antwerp; Art Association Hanover
- 1998 New Gallery Graz
- 1999 Biennale di Venezia - Arsenale 99; Friebe Gallery, Lüdenscheid
- 2000 Fons Welters Gallery , Amsterdam
- 2002 Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig; Tate Liverpool
- 2003 David Zwirner , New York; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp ; Exhibition Hall for Contemporary Art Münster ; David Zwirner, New York
- 2007 Sculpture.Projects , Münster
- 2008 Scape Biennal, Christchurch ; CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art , Bordeaux ; Marta Herford , Herford ; Regional Art Contemporain Fund (FRAC), Périgueux
- 2009 Biennale di Venezia, Danish Pavilion; Hedah, Maastricht ; National Museum of Singapore , Singapore ; Hall for Art, Lüneburg ;
- 2010 Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- 2011 Witte de With , Rotterdam; Galerie Nagel Draxler , Cologne / Berlin
literature
- Bijl, Guillaume (born 1946), installation artist. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
- Ann Hindry: Art contemporain. Un choix de 200 œuvres du Fonds national d'art contemporain (1985-1999). Éditions du Chêne, 2001, ISBN 2-8427-7337-3 , p. 64.
Web links
- Website Guillaume Bijl .
- Guillaume Bijl. 1946, BE . ( Memento of January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: artfacts.net
- Willem Elias: Guillaume Bijl (1946–). In: belgischekunst.be of September 22, 2012
- Timothée Chaillou: Interview with Guillaume Bijl ( English , French ) . In: Standard , Edition 35 from 2012.
Individual evidence
- ^ John C Welchman, Clément Dirié, Koen Leemans, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen: Jumps of the cat. Guillaume Bijl's simulation therapy. JRP Ringier, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03764-468-3 .
- ↑ a b Michael Brenson: A Conceptual Installation With Luxury for All . In: New York Times, December 21, 1990.
- ^ Bijl, Guillaume (born 1946), installation artist. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
- ↑ a b c Wuppertal receives a sculpture by Guillaume Bijl in 2008 . ( Memento from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: City of Wuppertal from December 10, 2007.
- ^ Anne Grages: The tie man has a new suitcase . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of June 23, 2016
- ↑ Beeldenreeks at RAI van Quillaume Bijl. In: bewonersplatformzuidas.nl of June 3, 2014.
- ↑ Herhard H. Kock: Grass should grow over the church. Artist wants to have his work poured in. In: Westfälische Nachrichten of March 19, 2013.
- ↑ Herhard H. Kock: Guillaume Bijl's church tower is filled in. Artwork now underground. In: Westfälische Nachrichten of April 16, 2015.
- ^ City co-opt artwork van Beaufort. In: Het Nieuwsblad on 6 August 2018.
- ↑ Stand beeld eert 'Jack' in Eerste Wereldoorlog. In: Het Laatste Nieuws of March 13, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bijl, Guillaume |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian concept artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |