Jan Dibbets in contemporary art collection

TIRANA, Oct. 6 – A unique contemporary art collection by Dutch painter Jan Dibbets will be put on display at the National Arts Gallery in Tirana, starting from Friday, October 8. The exhibition will be open for more than 20 days until November 1, the gallery said in a statement.
Gallery director Rubens Shima and Dutch ambassador to Albania Henk G.C. van den Dool were present at the exhibition’s launch ceremony.
Born in the Netherlands in 1941, Dibbets trained to be a painter, but turned to the photographic medium in the late 1960s. Harnessing the potential of photography to elucidate the conceptual variables of optics, his witty yet rigorous investigations of the elastic synthesis between object and space resulted in acute queries of vision and reality. Dibbets’ practice often resulted in richly paradoxical photographs such as his “Perspective Correction” series in which trapezoids drawn on his studio wall became perfect squares through the camera’s transformation of three-dimensional space into two-dimensional images. Challenging the myth that the photograph never lies, Dibbets fills the assumed paltriness of the reproduced image with a sense of intellectual wonder assumed to be absent from the unequivocality of both the photographic eye and reality.
Jan Dibbets lives and works in Amsterdam. He has had solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunsthalle, Bern; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit; and Fundacion Espai Poblenau, Barcelona; DePont Stichting voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tilburg; among others.
His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, including “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art 1960-1976” which was on view this past summer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In February, the Musꥠd’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris will present a complete retrospective of Dibbets’ “Horizon” series from the1970s until today.