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Article: Jan Dibbets at Barbara Gladstone.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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While many of Jan Dibbets's post-Minimalist and Conceptualist contemporaries created visually undistinguished photographs as documents of installations, performances and earthworks, his own photography has always had a seductive formalist allure. This exhibition of 13 early works (1967 to the mid-1970s) shows the ways the Dutch artist consistently created art that joins (like flesh to spirit) the sensuously expressive qualities of photography to an animating conceptual core.
Shortest Day at My House in Amsterdam (1970) is a grid formed by 80 photographs that register--at eight-minute intervals from dawn to dusk--the progress of daylight that filters through an ...