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Minimalists and Conceptualists: Richard Long, Jan Dibbets

Richard Long (British, b. Bristol, 1945): Carrara Line, 1985, marble Jan Dibbets (Dutch, b. Weert, 1941): The Shortest Day of 1970 Photographed in His House Every Six Minutes from Sunrise to Sunset, gelatin silver prints on paper on aluminum Flood Tide, 1969, gelatin silver prints On view at Hirshhorn (part of Panza Collection) A huge space at Hirshhorn, devoted to these two artists, the British Richard Long and the Dutch Jan Dibbets. Richard Long's horizontal sculpture seemed to me a perfect example of Minimalism: a long line of marble rocks. Actually it was also a piece of Land Art, you should have imagined this row of rocks somewhere on a spacious natural area, and it was for me a proof of the birth of Land Art from Minimalism. It was good that the two works of Jan Dibbets were together with Carrara Line: putting together Minimalism and Conceptualism was very helpful to understand the latter. There was a clear ressemblance: the two works of Jan Dibbets were also related to Land Art (let's say, indirectly, through photo), but they were carrying also one of the dimensions of Conceptual Art (and I realized here at Hirshhorn, at the exhibition of Panza Collection, the fact that Conceptualism is expressed in various ways). For Jan Dibbets, it seemes to me, a Conceptual artwork is the accomplishment of a project. The Shortest Day of 1970 Photographed in His House Every Six Minutes from Sunrise to Sunset is gorgeous: the main point is that it is the voutcome of a project in which the artist stayed all day long with a camera, clicking on the button every six minutes.