- Guillaume Bijl
Guillaume Bijl, born in
Antwerp in 1946, is a Belgianinstallation art ist.Bijl's first installation was a driving school, set in a gallery-space in
Antwerp in 1979, accompanied by amanifesto calling for the abolition of art centers, and replacing them with 'socially useful institutions'. This installation was followed in the eighties by a billiards room, a casino, a laundromat, a center for professional training, a psychiatric hospital, afallout shelter , a show of fictitious American artists, a conference for a new political party and a rural Belgian model house.He divides his work into four categories: 'transformation installations', 'situation installations', 'compositions trouvées' and 'sorry's'.
Bijl created a display window for a wax-doll museum for
Documenta IX in 1992.ee also
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Environmental sculpture External links
* [http://www.muhka.be/verzamelt_depot_artist.php?person_id=52&letter=B&la=nl M.U.K.H.A]
* [http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F0F7-BBCF-11D4-A93500D0B7069B40 the-artist.org]
* [http://acorn.forest.net/franklin/FMPro?-db=ff26artist.fp5&-format=detail.html&-sortfield=name%5ffirst&-sortfield=name&-sortfield=begin%5fdate&name=bijl&name%5ffirst=guillaume&date%5fcalc=*%2f*%2f&-max=10&-recid=2&-find= Guillaume Bijl at Franklin Furnace]
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