Marc Bijl

Bijl switches in his work between political activity and street culture as he does between the media of image, text and music.

He exposes the superficialities, icons and myths of popular culture in his work to stimulate the spectator to contemplate about moral and ethical issues.

He likes to upset, relocate and re-connote their superficial image and their mythmaking – always aiming at a critical analysis of the social conditions of the society.

His recent work is more abstract and minimalistic, exemplifying a shift in approach, by which he pares down different perspectives and methodologies to a new essence.

With this black dripping compound she had to give up her vivid youthfulness and sex appeal and turned into a scary mutant-like appearance.

On the wall behind her is sprayed La revoluzione siamo noi (We are the revolution), the famous slogan which Joseph Beuys often used in his artworks.

Like the Nike Logo, the heroine of the computer game Tomb Raider is a prominent icon in Bijl's work.

During Documenta 11 in September 2002 het sprayed te words TERROR on each of the six columns of the entrance to the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel.

When abstraction was supposed to lead Mondrian to the "nature of all things", Bijl rather sees the actual social wish for structure and orderliness in it.