Marinus Boezem

Marinus Boezem ( born January 28, 1934 in Leerdam ) is a Dutch conceptual artist and sculptor. He belongs together with Jan Dibbet and Ger van Elk with the representatives of Arte Povera in the 1960s in the Netherlands. He is known for his radical conceptual art and his work in public space. Boezem now lives in Middelburg.

Life and work

Marinus Lambertus van den Boezem 1954 studied a year at the Vrije Academie Artibus in Utrecht and then at the Vrije Academie in The Hague. In the late 1950s he also worked as a draftsman and painter.

In an action he hung in 1969 bedding out of the window of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. As part of the exhibition Op Losse Schroeven ( "On the loose screws " ) he hung white sheets from the windows of the façade of the Stedelijk Museum and pillows on the window sills. Boezem wanted to embody public art and public space in the field of art. The towels symbolized the meeting between the processes, on the playground, its actual impact in everyday life.

Marinus Boezem was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department of Individual Mythologies: Video.

Object "AZ" in 2007, he realized a work of art in honor of a text by Lennaert Nijgh. The marble sculpture by the letters A and Z is the lyrics of Nijgh. The sculpture was built 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 major museums including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Kröller- Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Empress Place Museum, 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: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archiv (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
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