Marinus Boezem's Bird's-Eye View at Galleria Fumagalli

Dutch conceptual artist Marinus Boezem (born 1937 in Leerdam) presents his project Bird's-eye view at Galleria Fumagalli in Milan. The exhibition features a floor installation tracing the plan of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi using seeds, intended for hypothetical birds that might feed on them after being carried by wind onto branches emerging from the walls, highlighting nature's precariousness over cultural expressions. Also on view are the video A volo d'uccello, showing a cathedral drawn with grass on the roof of his studio in Middelburg, and other works focused on ephemerality: God Bless you (1971-2013) and The Vanishing of the Artist (2019). Boezem, a key figure in Dutch Arte Povera and Land Art alongside Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk, participated in the landmark 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form curated by Harald Szeemann in Bern. In the 1970s, disguised as a bird, he flew under the vaults of a Gothic cathedral.