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Jan Dibbets was born in 1941 in Weert, the Netherlands. Dibbets was trained as a painter at the St. Martin's School of Art in London. 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 in numerous collections and 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.

References

Land and Environmental Art, Edited by Jeffery Kastner and Brian Wallis, Phaidon Press, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0714845191
Jan Dibbets, Interior Light, Rudi Fuchs and Gloria Moure, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1991. ISBN 0847814297

External links

Van Abbe Museum
UBU Web
Gladstone Gallery representing Dibbets in the US
Dutch Light

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 '''Jan Dibbets''' was born in 1941 in [[Weert]], [[the Netherlands]]. Dibbets was trained as a painter at the St. Martin's School of Art in London. 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.
+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 in numerous collections and 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.