Jan Dibbets
Jan Dibbets, born 1941, Weert, Netherlands, lives and works in Amsterdam. Dibbets is a pioneering figure of European Conceptual Art whose practice redefined the relationship between photography, geometry, and perception. Emerging in the late 1960s, he developed his signature “perspective corrections,” using the camera not as a documentary device but as a tool to manipulate and question spatial logic. Across five decades, Dibbets has expanded this inquiry through landscape-based works, conceptual films, and investigations into light and reflection. His oeuvre is widely exhibited and represented in major museum collections worldwide, marking him as one of the most influential voices in postwar photographic and conceptual practice.
Seascape
1975
From Landscapes
Collotype/silkscreen on cardstock, 33 x 40 cm (13 x 17¼ in). Edition: 55, signed and numbered.
A picture divided into two horizontal bands reads as a landscape; what if there are three bands?
