Dominique Stroobant (born March 16, 1947) is a Belgian sculptor, photographer and graphic artist living in Italy.
Life
Since 1970 he has been living in Carrara, where he resides and works in the small hamlet of
Miseglia
Miseglia is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Carrara, province of Massa-Carrara. At the time of the 2011 census its population amounted to 449.
Miseglia is about 2 km from Carrara and 10 k ...
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In 1972 he created with Kenneth Davis and Philippe Toussaint the ''Floating Stones Group''.
In 1976 he started his collaboration with the enterprise Fratelli Biselli SpA, one of the first two to cut granite since the 1950s in Carrara.
With Paolo Gioli he was one of the photographer who developed
pinhole photography in Europe. In 1977 he documented with his selft-built
[ pinhole camera the movement of the sun.
He worked with ]Max Bill
Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer.
Early life and education
Bill was born in Winterthur. After an apprenticeship as a silversmith ...
. Amongst their most important artwork is the sculpture ''Kontinuität'' in Frankfurt
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He has been a friend and collaborator of ZERO
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artist Jef Verheyen.
In 1988 he carved a memorial for the casualties of the 1956 mining accident
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of Marcinelle, inside the site of the coal mine.[
In 2013 he was the moderator at the round table discussion "''Visivi. La fotografia attraverso i linguaggi contemporanei''" ("''Visual. Photography through contemporary languages''"), in Florence at ]Museo Galileo
Museo Galileo, the former ''Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza'' (Institute and Museum of the History of Science) is located in Florence, Italy, in Piazza dei Giudici, along the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery. The museum, dedicate ...
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Work
Stroobant was mainly known in his early years for the investigation of the reuse of industrial materials, but later focused his attention on political and philosophical themes. [
Another the crucial aspect of his activity is also the role of scientific principles in art.][
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Gallery
Books
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Documentaries
*''Behind these Stones - Dietro i sassi'' Film and Photography Catalogue presented at the 37th Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
, Flemish Ministry of the Arts, Belgium, (1976)
*''Non son l’uno per cento, anarchici a Carrara'' (''I am not the one percent, anarchists in Carrara''), Antonio Morabito (2006)
Exhibitions
* ''Behind those stones'', Biennale of Venice
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
, 1978.Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District, Houston, Texas, founded in 1948,
dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public.
As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual ...
, June 30 – September 9, 1990
* Senza Obiettivo, International Exhibition of Pinhole Photography, Santa Maria della Scala (Siena)
Santa Maria della Scala (also referred to as the Hospital, Ospedale, and Spedale) is located in Siena, Italy. Now a museum, it was once an important civic hospital dedicated to caring for abandoned children, the poor, the sick, and pilgrims. Reven ...
Museum, October 31 - November 17, 2002, Siena - XI Visionaria Festival
* Artempo at Fortuny Museum
The Museo Fortuny or Fortuny Museum is an art museum in San Marco, in central Venice, Italy.
The museum is housed in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, now often known as Palazzo Fortuny, where Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949) had a studio in the late ni ...
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Personal life
He met in 1969 South-African Mona Johnson (from Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...
) and had two children, Ish-maël (*1972) and Mascha (*1978).
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1947 births
20th-century Belgian sculptors
21st-century Belgian sculptors
Photographers from Antwerp
Belgian sculptors
Living people