Marinus Boezem
Marinus Boezem (born January 28, 1934 in Leerdam ) is a Dutch conceptual artist and sculptor . He belongs together with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk with representatives of the Arte Povera of the 1960 year in the Netherlands. He is known for his radical conceptual art and his work in public spaces. Boezem now lives in Middelburg .
life and work
Marinus Lambertus van den Boezem studied for one year at the Vrije Academie Artibus in Utrecht in 1954 and then at the Vrije Academie in The Hague . In the late 1950s he also worked as a draftsman and painter.
During an action in 1969 he hung bedding out of the window of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . As part of the exhibition Op Losse Schroeven (“ About the loose screws ”), he hung white cloths from the windows of the facade of the Stedelijk Museum and cushions on the window sills. Boezem wanted to embody art in public space and public space in the field of art. The cloths symbolized the meeting between the processes, on the playground and the concrete effects in everyday life.
Marinus Boezem took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Individual Mythologies : Video department .
For the “ AZ ” object in 2007, he created a work of art in honor of a text by Lennaert Nijgh . The marble sculpture with the letters A and Z represents the texts by Nijgh. The sculpture was erected after the renovation of the Oude Groenmarkt in Haarlem in 2006 and 2007 and equipped with a small fountain.
His works are part of the collections of important museums, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam , the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo , the Corcoran Gallery of Art , in Washington, DC , the Empress Place Museum in Singapore , the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven , the Brooklyn Museum in New York City , the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago , the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts in Kyoto, and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery in London .
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
Web links
- Examples of his works
- the-artists.org
- Materials by and about Marinus Boezem in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boezem, Marinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch conceptual artist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leerdam |