Jan Dibbets (born 9 May 1941, inWeert) is an Amsterdam-basedDutchconceptual artist. His work isinfluenced by mathematics and works mainly with photography.[1]
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he started as an art teacher at theTilburg Academy and studied painting withJan Gregoor inEindhoven. 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 metRichard Long and other artists working withland 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".[2] His work in the Dutch pavilion at theVenice Biennale in 1972 gave him an international reputation.
In 1994, he was commissioned by the Arago Association to create a memorial to the French astronomerFrançois Arago, known asHommage à Arago. Dibbets set 135 bronze medallions into the ground along theParis Meridian between the north and south limits of Paris.
Dibbets's works are included in museums around the world, including theStedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, and theVan Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
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