Author Description

This monograph offers a fascinating insight into the Belgian artist's oeuvre. Following Bijl's own order criteria, the book contains the transformation-, situation- and sorry- installations - compositions that establish aesthetical situations which seduce the viewer tacitly while s/he is being deluded by one thing in particular: reality. the catalogue raisonné summarises Guillaume Bijl's works which are elaborate and cryptical at the same time. Essays, an interview, also an excerpt from Georges Perec's novel Die Dinge and a short theatre piece by Bijl show the multi-faceted abundance of the individual works and the concepts behind them. Often Bijl authentically reconstructs sites which do not exist like this in reality. Described in his quizzical as well as disturbing way is Bijl's Death Room for a Composer, arranged in 1991 for a fictitious contemporary composer named Johannes Vogl. Also included is the installation Archeological Site which caused a sensation at skulptur projekte münster 07 in 2007.