Marinus Boezem, Weather drawing, 1969

Original weather chart from March 18 1969. Collotype, ink, colour pencil, felt pen. Sheet format 67.5 x 85 cm, framed 73 x 90 x 3 cm. Signed Boezem ’69 in pencil in lower right corner.

This work derives from the key series of weather maps, which the artist first presented as part of the famous 'Op Losse Schroeven' exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1969. Boezem made diapositives from the hand coloured weather maps, every day one slide was projected in a darkened museum room. The installation went accompanied by a light box projection of the Beaufort Wind Scale and an audio piece in which a well-known Dutch newscaster could be heard announcing that day's weather forecast. The charts run from 14 March - April 15 1969. On March 25, April 5, 13, 15 no weather maps were made. From the total of 29 maps, 27 are in a private collection in Geneva. This rare piece derives from a private collection in Amsterdam. It was shown in the ‘Sixties’ exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum The Hague in 2007. Ref: Cat. Raissone Boezem, van Duijn and Witteveen, Thoth Bussum, 1990, p. 196 -197