MARINUS BOEZEM
MARINUS BOEZEM
Biography
Marinus Boezem (1934, the Netherlands) is among the most significant representatives of Conceptual Art and Arte Povera in The Netherlands, together with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk. In the 1960s, Boezem started to use elusive elements such as air, weather, wind and light as visual materials and made a name with radical, immaterial works that were far ahead of their time. He was one of the initiators of the ground-breaking exhibition “Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties en Cryptostructuren” (1969) at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and took part in the equally influential exhibition “When Attitudes Become Form” at the Kunsthalle Bern in the same year.
In 1969 he created one of his most famous works of art, Signing the Sky Above The Port of Amsterdam With an Aeroplane (1969): as stated in the title, an aircraft’s condensation trails were used to spell out Boezem’s surname in the sky, the ephemeral wording disappearing almost as soon as it was created. Boezem created numerous works in public space and land art such as the Gothic Growth Project (Green Cathedral) (from 1978/1987): 174 Italian poplar trees (Populus Nigra Italica) are planted to reproduce the floor plan and measurements of the Cathedral at Reims, in a flat polder near Almere, the Netherlands.
In an oeuvre spanning more than sixty years, Marinus Boezem has created a body of work that stands quite independently in contemporary art. His works are part of many important museum collections, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum Kröller-Müller, Otterloo; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar.
Biography
Marinus Boezem (1934, the Netherlands) is among the most significant representatives of Conceptual Art and Arte Povera in The Netherlands, together with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk. In the 1960s, Boezem started to use elusive elements such as air, weather, wind and light as visual materials and made a name with radical, immaterial works that were far ahead of their time. He was one of the initiators of the ground-breaking exhibition “Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties en Cryptostructuren” (1969) at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and took part in the equally influential exhibition “When Attitudes Become Form” at the Kunsthalle Bern in the same year.
In 1969 he created one of his most famous works of art, Signing the Sky Above The Port of Amsterdam With an Aeroplane (1969): as stated in the title, an aircraft’s condensation trails were used to spell out Boezem’s surname in the sky, the ephemeral wording disappearing almost as soon as it was created. Boezem created numerous works in public space and land art such as the Gothic Growth Project (Green Cathedral) (from 1978/1987): 174 Italian poplar trees (Populus Nigra Italica) are planted to reproduce the floor plan and measurements of the Cathedral at Reims, in a flat polder near Almere, the Netherlands.
In an oeuvre spanning more than sixty years, Marinus Boezem has created a body of work that stands quite independently in contemporary art. His works are part of many important museum collections, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum Kröller-Müller, Otterloo; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar.
Works
Works
Press
strekalmag.com
4 July, 2018
“Dutch artist’s intervention softens imposing Soviet landmark”
Press
strekalmag.com
4 July, 2018
“Dutch artist’s intervention softens imposing Soviet landmark”
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Institutions
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