Marinus Boezem (1934, NL) belongs, together with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk, among the most important representatives of the Conceptual Art and Arte Povera movements in The Netherlands. In the 1960s, Boezem discovered that he could use elusive elements such as air, water, wind and light as visual materials and built a reputation for himself with radical, immaterial works that were far ahead of their time.
For 3 Seconds of Dutch Light (1976), a sheet of light-sensitive photographic paper was exposed for three seconds and mounted on an aluminium sheet. The light is translated into a monochrome black. Like this, Boezem captures the immaterial
phenomenon of light.