IC w5 Jan Dibbets
- HildeMaassen
- Feb 28, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 15, 2020
The whole discussion about the gaze, the banal, the intent makes me think about my role in photography.
I saw an interview with artist Jan dibbets who I mentioned in the first module. His work is an research where he has a two-way conversation with the photocamera.
He talks about the influence of art on daily life. As an example, he refers to the design of the living room nowadays. That would never have existed without art. the art direction the style has been enormously important in this. It is really not due to ikea. They only deliver the product; not the idea, the experiment. If it is not an experiment, research then it is a product, but that is something other than the soul of art that actually asks for a try.
I suddenly know for sure that that is what I am doing, through images I am constantly researching, trying. Looking at shapes; visual. It is not the banal thing I have in mind, even though clouds are often unseen simply because they are always there, but people usually look straight ahead or down, but not up. I do want to make my view, gaze of climate change visible and the clouds the symbol for that. Through the experiment I do research into the shape, color, depth. I try to create new landscapes. The images may look surreal, dramatic or futiristic. In the images, I certainly aim at a clash with the universe. Nature is a force that needs to be taken into account because ultimately we do not win the battle. Experimenting it is important to continue to amaze me. It's so very nice to hear that that's also what drives Jan Dibbets.
Dibbets gives the following answer to the question whether photography is art:
There has never been a sensible word about whether photography should or should not belong to art. I can give a simpel answer to that; there are also many paintings that I would rather not see in art; they are very ugly and so terrible and they are all called art. That is all nonsense. There are good, imaginative things and not good things. The bad things just don't belong to the art.
"The art is the sublimate of the expression".
Source
NIEUWKERK, Michiel van. Jan. 2015. Jan Dibbets. Hollandse meesters in de 21ste eeuw. (Dutch masters) https://youtu.be/6u_uWQcejzA [assessed 28 February 2020]
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