BLURRY CONFLICTS I&II

NP3 presents within the environment YARDin the next reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s YARD by APT artist Marc Bijl in the Double Exhibition BLURRY CONFLICTS I & II at the locations bur0 Gr0ningen and M0Bi.

The solo exhibition of Marc Bijl contains industrially made paintings and a video installation about the end of the industrial era. Information and conflicts become increasingly unclear when more information channels are available. Plain language becomes hollow slogans and deliberate analysis get attacked as elitist and intellectually, shouted down by the voice of the people.

“The battle for the survival of man as a responsible being in the ‘communications era’ is not to be won where the communication originates, but where it arrives … “

– Umberto Eco “Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare”, 1967

Ex-squatter and rebel Marc Bijl shows his softest side in this exhibition. The most beautiful colors from ominous newsreports. Hard facts in dreaming away noise …

– Nouveau Vague anno 2016

Alan Kaprow's YARD re-invention by Marc Bijl in NP3, Groningen (YARDin)

“I say reinventions, rather than reconstructions, because the works … differ markedly from their originals. Intentionally so. As I wrote in notes to one of them, they were planned to change each time they were remade. This decision, made in the late 50s, was the polar opposite of the traditional belief that the physical art object—the painting, photo, music composition, etc.—should be fixed in a permanent form.

Furthermore, the Environment quickly incorporated the idea of internal changes during its presentation. The conventional spectators became the participants who executed the changes. Here, also, the traditional notion of the uniquely talented artist (the genius) was suspended in favor of a tentative collectivity (the social group as artist). Art was like the weather.”

ALLAN KAPROW 1961