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Jan Dibbets (born 9 May 1941, in
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Jan Dibbets (born 9 May 1941, in Weert
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conceptual artist
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. His work is influenced by mathematics and works mainly with photography.
Life and career
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he started as an art teacher at the Tilburg Academy and studied painting withJan Gregoor
Johannes Jacobus "Jan" Gregoor (April 9, 1914 – May 20, 1982) was a Dutch Painting, painter and art education, art educator. His works were extensively exhibited in art galleries and museums throughout the Netherlands. He taught art at the ...
in Eindhoven. 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 met Richard Long and other artists working with land 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". His work in the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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in 1972 gave him an international reputation.
In 1994, he was commissioned by the Arago Association to create a memorial to the French astronomer François Arago, known as ''Hommage à Arago''. Dibbets set 135 bronze medallions into the ground along the Paris Meridian between the north and south limits of Paris.
Dibbets's works are included in museums around the world, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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, New York, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art
De Pont Museum is a contemporary art museum in Tilburg, North Brabant, the Netherlands. De Pont has been named after the attorney and businessman Jan de Pont (1915-1987), whose estate provided for the establishment of a foundation to stimulate con ...
in Tilburg, and the Van Abbemuseum
The Van Abbemuseum () is a museum of modern and contemporary art in central Eindhoven, Netherlands, on the east bank of the Dommel River. Established in 1936, the museum is named after its founder, Henri van Abbe, who loved modern art and wante ...
in Eindhoven.
Further reading
* Jeffery Kastner and Brian Wallis (editors): ''Land and Environmental Art''. Phaidon Press, 1998. * Rudi Fuchs and Gloria Moure: ''Jan Dibbets, Interior Light''. New York: Rizzoli, 1991.Books
* Robin Redbreast's Territory/Sculpture 1969. Zédélé éditions, Reprint collection, 2014970
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* With foreword by David Cleaton-Roberts, Director of the Alan Cristea Gallery.
Articles
* Rutger Pontzen, ''Like before, the sea levels everything'', Observatoire du Land Art, 4 October 2009Read online through Latitudes
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1941 births Living people Dutch conceptual artists 20th-century Dutch photographers People from Weert Dutch contemporary artists 21st-century Dutch photographers {{Netherlands-artist-stub