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Jan Dibbets is a Dutch Postwar & Contemporary photographer who was born in 1941. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kroller-Muller Museum have featured Jan Dibbets's work in the past.Jan Dibbets's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 8 USD to 85,863 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 85,863 USD for Guggenheim I, sold at Christie's Amsterdam in 2012. In the past 12 months, his artworks have averaged 4,675 USD.Jan Dibbets has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Artillery Magazine in September 2025.
Photography can change its dimensions more easily than any other medium; pictures can be effortlessly blown up into large images on museum walls and billboards, or shrunk down to a thumbnail on a mobile phone screen.
The Stedelijk鈥檚 three-part collection presentation has been redesigned with a special focus on theme. Part 2, Everyday, Someday and Other Stories, traces the evolution of art and design from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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..A major component of Dibbets early explorations used multiple photographic images of fragments of land and seascapes collaged together to create illusory 鈥榟orizons'; this subject has remained at the heart...
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..Whilst they feature details from the polished metalwork of car bodies, they have nothing to do per se with the vehicles - they are Dibbets' own abstractions, at once both purely photographic and painterly...
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..These astonishing works have been years in the making and cement Dibbets as one of the most important contemporary artists working with photography...
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..Trapezoid shapes made from string which Dibbets photographed from a certain angle appear in his photographs as strange hovering squares within the pictorial space...
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..Dibbets developed a painterly approach to photography, challenging the assumption that photography produces only objective reproductions of reality, and exploring the possibilities for a photograph as...
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