The Green Cathedral, Marinus Boezem. Flevoland, NL.
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The Green Cathedral, Marinus Boezem. Flevoland, NL.
Marinus Boezem (1934) belongs, together with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk, among the most important representatives of the Conceptual Art and Arte Povera movement in The Netherlands. In the 1960s, Boezem discovered that he could 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. Boezem 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.
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In 1969 he created one of his most famous works of art, ‘Signing the Sky Above The Port of Amsterdam With an Aeroplane, 1969’: exactly as stated in its 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. In 1971 he made an artwork for television that was broadcast under the auspices of Gerry Shum’s legendary Fernseh Gallery. Furthermore, Boezem created numerous works in public space and land art. The Green Cathedral is a beautiful example: 174 Italian poplar trees 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 the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum Kröller-Muller, Otterloo; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; and many more public art collections.
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Marinus Boezem (1934) Marinus Boezem (1934) belongs, together with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk, among the most important representatives of the Conceptual Art and Arte Povera movement in The Netherlands.
Studio visit: Marinus Boezem
Marinus Boezem is one of the first conceptual artists in The Netherlands and for the second edition in my series of studio visits, I went to the former orphanage in Middelburg where he works and lives. It’s an incredibly inspiring place and it was a great privilege to talk with Boezem about his life and his art.
For De Correspondent, april 2016. → Conceptueel kunstenaar Marinus Boezem maakt werk van lucht, licht, polders en vogels
Photo’s: Lana Mesić
New on 500px : Storm at world heritage Kinderdijk by SanderPoppe
New on 500px : Storm at world heritage Kinderdijk by SanderPoppe
Just one for the weekend! This photo is also from last Tuesday I love the crazy sky… composition could have been better!
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New on 500px : Storm at world heritage Kinderdijk by SanderPoppe
New on 500px : Storm at world heritage Kinderdijk by SanderPoppe
Just one for the weekend! This photo is also from last Tuesday I love the crazy sky… composition could have been better!
Sony A77, Sigma 10-20mm, LEE ND Hard Grad 0.6
F11, 1/10sec, ISO50
via 500px http://ift.tt/1DGBLvK
View On WordPress
The Absence of the Artist
At Upstream Gallery we made an exhibition with Marinus Boezem, one of the founders of conceptual art in the Netherlands. I admire his radical attitude; his works are based on briliant, crystal clear concepts. The exhibition runs until January 15.
→ The Absence of the Artist
Introducing
I did an interview based on Proust's questionnaire for SSBA Salon, read it here.
Boezem, Della Scultura & La Luce, Ph. GJ v. Rooij.
TRACES
Group exhibition TRACES at Upstream Gallery, until July 18th.
The Absence of the Artist by Boezem, ph. GJ v. Rooij.