46. 46AR GUILLAUME BIJL (born 1946) L'inauguration, found composition 1988 Work in three dimensions Installation comprising a carpet, a marble base, a cushion, chisels, a plaster head covered with a drape, a red velvet cord and a ribbon Driedimensional work Installatie bestaande uit een tapijt, een marmeren voetstuk, een kussen, beitels, een gipsen hoofd bedekt met een gordijn, een rood fluwelen koord en een lint Three-dimensional work Installation comprising a carpet, a marble base, a cushion, chisels, a plaster head covered with a drape, a red velvet cord and a ribbon 160 x 130 x 250 cm Provenance / Herkomst Collection privée / privécollectie, Belgium The title of Compositions trouvées is a pun on the object found and on the word 'found'. It's not quite found, because these are assemblages that I made myself, which are a kind of archaeological still life. They are details of shops or lost corners. As each object has a historical reference, or something of the sort, you can see in these works an aspect of our rather kitsch society, full of contradictions.