Jan Dibbets

January Dibbet ( born May 9, 1941 in Weert, Netherlands) is a Dutch conceptual artist.

Biography

Dibbet was trained at St. Martin's School of Art in London. The artist is linked to the landscape and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. His work focuses mainly on light, observation, perspective and space. He became famous for his early work in photography. The use of cords and tape to form smooth surfaces of geometric shapes that produce perspective illusion through the camera, which in turn generates a second illusion by which the character is the same inside and outside the imaging plane.

For the West German Radio in 1969 his project titled TV As a Fire Place, which consisted of a filmed by Gerry Schum fire originated. It aired during the festive season seven days nightly by WDR 3 for Sendeschluss each for three minutes in the newly introduced color television. The broadcasts were among the first unannounced and uncommented artistic interventions that have been broadcast on television.

On April 15, 1969, the ARD beamed at 22.40 clock another movie Schum's Land Art with the title of. Part of this mission was Jan Dibbet ' 7.32 minutes lasting 16 mm color and sound film 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, which had been recorded on a Dutch beach.

Jan Dibbet took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, represented in the Documenta 6 (1977 ) and the Documenta 7 in 1982 as an artist. From 1984 to 2004 Jan Dibbet taught as a professor at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf.

Dibbet works are exhibited, among others, at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the de Pont Gallery in Tilburg and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.