Marc Bijl
You Only Live Twice


"You only live twice, it seems
One life for yourself and one for your dreams" N. S.

BARK LAB's gallery space overcomes the separating pane between passerby and exhibit. What was previously seen as a scene of exhibited objects in a room through the shop windows, a diorama-like arrangement now transforms the shop window into a kind of picture frame, which has its exhibition space directly to the passerby. The exhibition takes place in an accommodating way directly to the city dweller walking in front of it. The urban space is transformed from a space to be walked through into a space with a personal extended experience.

Camouflage-like structures in red, black and silver shimmer over the abstract new paintings by Marc Bijl. They draw associations from the jazzy carpet-like spreading strokes to pop-like camouflage associated with the theme of war. A net to catch and condense traces of ideas that arise from the collective memory, from the accumulation of thought possibilities. All this is possible, but as N. Sinatra already suggests, there is also the dream, which lets us ignore reality, in which a second life takes place, one from which the impulses for reality come, which cannot be condensed, which always detach themselves and go on living their own lives, in this respect Marc Bijl uses here an open net to condense and detach - "You only live twice, it seems.
One life for yourself and one for your dreams" ...