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Jan Dibbets «TV as a Fireplace»
Jan Dibbets, «TV as a Fireplace», 1969
Videostill | © Jan Dibbets
 


 
 
Germany | Archive / Collection: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne
 

 Jan Dibbets

b 1941 in Weert (NL); 1967 studies at St Martin’s School of Art in London; since 1984 Professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf; lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and San Casciano Bagni (I). Jan Dibbets is one of the main actors of European Concept Art. His artistic strategy is centered around the problem of perception and the illusion of our senses using mainly photography as his field of research. Dibbets is specifically interested in questions concerning the perspective and its corrections. He realized some temporary interventions in the context of Land Art in the late 1960s which gave this research a poetic form.