Gerardus Johannes Maria Dibbets

Place: Weert

Born: 1941

Biography:

Jan Dibbets is a Dutch conceptual artist born on May 9, 1941, in Weert, Netherlands. He is known for his work influenced by mathematics and mainly working with photography. Dibbets started as an art teacher at the Tilburg Academy and studied painting with Jan Gregoor in Eindhoven. He had his first solo exhibition in 1965 at Amsterdam's Galerie 845 and subsequently abandoned painting in 1967. 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 in 1972 gave him an international reputation. Dibbets's works are included in museums around the world, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.