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In Storage or ‘In Situ’? 75-Year-Old Artist Guillaume Bijl Works From Home Surrounded by His Weird and Wonderful Large-Scale Sculptures
On Manhattan’s Higher East Facet, Belgian artist Guillaume Bijl has designed a fortune teller’s den, decked out with glowing neon indications and embroidered floor pillows scattered throughout a plush pink carpet. The installation now on watch at Meredith Rosen Gallery is Bijl at his best: a spirited and humorous aesthetic that hints at deeper, and at times darker, undercurrents. Bijl, who is now 75, 1st rose to interest in the 1960s as a self-taught artist painting in a style that mimicked anything from Impressionism to Surrealism. By the late 1970s, he’d started to incorporate located objects and genuine residence decor into his increasingly elaborate vignettes. These opulently detailed installations have appear to embody…