Marinus Boezem’s artwork reveiled at Rabobank Apeldoorn
2-5-2011 |
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveiled an artwork by Marinus Boezem on Monday, 18 April 2011 during the official opening of Rabobank Apeldoorn’s new Consultancy Centre.
Commissioned by the local member bank and guided by the Rabobank Nederland Art Department, Marinus Boezem has created a work of art in the public space in front of the entry to the Consultancy Centre. In this work Boezem combines the core terms of agricultural values, sustainability, the environment and co-operative into a summarising image. He then links this to the existing local geological conditions comprising above- and below-ground water veins in the form of brooks and springs. Boezem depicts this in his design by employing three different figurations of the branches of a tree with a drinking fountain as the ‘trunk’ that symbolises the spring.
The work of art will be situated on a walking trail in the future. Boezem aims through this work of art to introduce an ancient social custom to a contemporary public space. Drinking fountains in Mediterranean Europe have a strong social function as a meeting place. They emerged in the Middle Ages when wells and springs were hubs of dialogue and community life. From the sixteenth century onwards, these springs were transformed into more or less monumental drinking fountains. The drinking fountain serves as metaphor for hospitality and, in this proposal, is linked to the symbol of growth: the trees.
