1941     born in Weert (NL), he lives and works between Amsterdam and San Casciano dei Bagni (Siena).

Once he finishes his academic studies in Tilburg, the artist holds his first personal exposition in 1965 in Amsterdam and attends the St. Martin’s School of Art of London getting close to photography. In the course of 1969 the Perspective Corrections are born, theme about which Dibbets will go back to interrogating himself during the whole  duration of his artistic carrier.

He is one of the major exponents of European conceptual art, as his precocious participations to the most important international festivals demonstrate, it should be enough to mention the following: “When Attitudes Become Form”(1969), at the Kunsthalle in Berna, curated by Harald Szeemann , and “Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects” (1970), at the New York Cultural Centre, that  determine the beginning of the artistic phenomenon on a world-wide level.

His contributions have been important also in the field of Land Art, in particular at the beginning of his career, he spent his time with Richard Long and the artists of the Land. An example is the intervention of procedural character presented to the Loher Gallery of Frankfurt (1967), where Dibbets constructs simple geometrical forms with water and dust, and documents with the use of photographs the progressive destruction of an oval made of sawdust.

What makes all of Jan Dibbets’ work intrinsically conceptual is exactly the fundamental role given to the idea and to the project, more than that given to the produced art piece, together with the constant investigation done on the nature of art and on artistic experience.