Marc Bijl

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marc Bijl
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Jul 7, 1970(1970-07-07)
Age	54
Birthplace	Leerdam
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Cancer

Marc Bijl Biography

Marc Bijl is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on July 7, 1970 in Leerdam, Netherlands. Marc Bijl, born 7 July 1970 in Leerdam, is a Dutch artist living and working in Berlin. His works are inspired by social issues and the use of symbols and rules. These interventions can be made in public spaces, sculptures, or installations that challenge or reinforce this view of the world.

Bijl created a fake issue of Flash Art in 2002. He then reacted to the art system by using its own rules. His artist’s book could not be distinguished from a Flash Art edition in bookshops.

Bijl’s textual works are a major part of his work. He sprays graffiti messages and short messages onto public spaces in these installations. He sprayed “RESIST” on the Portikus exhibition space in Frankfurt am Main in 2002. Het also spray the words TERROR each column of the Museum Fridericianum’s entrance during Documenta 11. All the letters vanished the next morning and the audience, still stunned by September 11, 2001, could continue to visit the exhibition with no worries. He also sprayed MODERN CRISIS at the Fridericianum’s entrance in January 2009. Bijl also put his name on prominent building site hoardings, imitating the corporate identity of those hoardings. He was following the strategy corporate players who have taken over the realm. Bijl scoured their strategies and demanded a place in the urban-planning and economic establishment.

Marc Bijl Net Worth

Marc Bijl is one of the richest Sculptor from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marc Bijl 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Marc Bijl was a student at the Royal Academy of Art & Design from 1992 to 1997. He also studied at the Glasgow School of Art for one year in 1996. Marc Bijl’s early work was influenced by global themes and popular fascination with symbols of power, globalization, religion, and nationalism. These reactions led to interventions in public space, videos and sculptures that emphasized or subverted world views. Bijl’s work aims to reveal myths and superficialities. Bijl’s work alternates between street culture and political activity, as well as between image, text and musical media. In his work, Bijl exposes the myths, icons, and superficialities of popular culture to encourage the spectator to think about moral and ethical questions. His artistic tools and targets include the label, logo, and symbol. He enjoys to disrupt, relocate and re- connote their mythmaking and superficial image. However, he is always keen to critically analyze the social conditions of society. Bijl draws visual elements from the Gothic and punk subcultures as well as anarchism. His first works were cartoon-like, textual and representational. His latest work is abstracted and minimalistic. This is a result of a shift in his approach. He reduces different perspectives and methodologies to create a new essence. It is not the symbolism that matters, but how it represents and signifies. Bijl’s most recent works make clear references to modernist art historical icons like Mondriaan and Mark Rothko. Bijl adapts the classic works to suit his corporate style. Bijl seeks an abstracter formal language, which is in many ways more ambiguous that his earlier vocabulary.

Bijl’s symbols and logos are, as I mentioned earlier, often the Leitmotiv of his work. Bijl opened a Rotterdam gallery/shop selling orange-colored bricks coated with Nike slogan. This was in 2000, when the European Football Championship was being hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands.

The work La revoluzione siamo noi (2002) shows Bijls fascination with popular culture. The work is a lifelike sculpture of the famous icon Lara Croft. She is covered in tar, holding two pistols and smoking a cigarette. 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.

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Marc Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Marc Bijl celebrates birthday on July 7 of every year.