Jan Dibbets
Jan Dibbets(born 9 May 1941, inWeert) is an Amsterdam-basedDutchconceptual artist.His work isinfluenced by mathematicsand works mainly with photography.[1]
Life and career
[edit]In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he started as an art teacher at theTilburg Academyand studied painting withJan GregoorinEindhoven.He had his first solo exhibition in 1965 at Amsterdam's Galerie 845 and subsequently abandoned painting in 1967. At that same period, he visited London and metRichard Longand other artists working withland art.He returned to Amsterdam, incorporated land-art based theories into his work and began to use photography as a "dialogue between nature and cool geometrical design by rotating the camera on its axis" with his "perspective corrections".[2]His work in the Dutch pavilion at theVenice Biennalein 1972 gave him an international reputation.
In 1994, he was commissioned by the Arago Association to create a memorial to the French astronomerFrançois Arago,known asHommage à Arago.Dibbets set 135 bronze medallions into the ground along theParis Meridianbetween the north and south limits of Paris.
Dibbets's works are included in museums around the world, including theStedelijk Museum,Amsterdam,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,New York,De Pont Museum of Contemporary Artin Tilburg, and theVan Abbemuseumin Eindhoven.
Further reading
[edit]- Jeffery Kastner and Brian Wallis (editors):Land and Environmental Art.Phaidon Press, 1998.ISBN0-7148-4519-1
- Rudi Fuchs and Gloria Moure:Jan Dibbets, Interior Light.New York: Rizzoli, 1991.ISBN0-8478-1429-7
Books
[edit]- Robin Redbreast's Territory/Sculpture 1969. Zédélé éditions, Reprint collection, 2014 [1970].ISBN978-2-915859-45-4
- Jan Dibbets: Perspective Collection.London: Alan Cristea Gallery. 2007.With foreword by David Cleaton-Roberts, Director of the Alan Cristea Gallery.
Articles
[edit]- Rutger Pontzen,Like before, the sea levels everything,Observatoire du Land Art, 4 October 2009.Read online through Latitudes
References
[edit]- ^Knoblauch, Loring (2 December 2015)."Jan Dibbets, Work: 1970-1984 @Peter Freeman".Collector Daily.Retrieved10 May2016.
- ^"Jan Dibbets born 1941".Tate.RetrievedMay 28,2019.
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