Jan Dibbets

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Jan Dibbets (born 9 May 1941, Weert), is a Dutch conceptual artist.

Dibbets was trained as a painter at the St. Martin's School of Art in London and by Jan Gregoor in the Netherlands.^[1] He is associated with the land art and conceptual art movements of the 1960s and 70s and holds an international reputation. His oeuvre is primarily concerned with light, observation, perspective, and space. He is known for his early work in perspective correction through the use of photography. Using string or tape on a flat surface, Dibbets forms a square or rectangle to exploit the illusion of perspective that is created by a camera. This then creates a second illusion of the square simultaneously existing off and out of the picture plane.

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 works are included in museums around the world, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, De Pont Gallery in Tilburg, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.

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[edit] Additional reading

• Jeffery Kastner and Brian Wallis (editors): Land and Environmental Art. Phaidon Press, 1998. ISBN 0714845191
• Rudi Fuchs and Gloria Moure: Jan Dibbets, Interior Light. New York: Rizzoli, 1991. ISBN 0847814297

[edit] External links

• UBU Web
• Gladstone Gallery representing Dibbets in the US
• Dutch Light