Jan Dibbets, who began as a painter and who will surprisingly soon consider himself one again, makes use of photography, by which he manages to provide perception and the image with new impulses. Due to the distortion, it becomes a square that seems to be hovering in space. During that same year Dibbets shows, in a sequence of photographs, the gradual change of light that is cast in through the windows of his studio. It is a poetic and concentrated image of an interval of time that nearly eludes immediate perception. Perhaps the best known works of Dibbets date from the 1970s. |