Shutterspeed Piece - Konrad Fisher's Gallery I

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Jan Dibbets (b. 1941)
Shutterspeed Piece - Konrad Fisher's Gallery I
signed and dated 'Jan Dibbets january 1971' (lower centre)
black and white photographs and pencil on paper, in artist's frame
55 x 71cm.
Executed in 1971

Provenance

Konrad Fisher, Dusseldorf.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1972.

Literature

R. Fuchs (ed.), Jan Dibbets. Interior Light: Works on Architecture 1969-1990, Groningen 1991, no 10, p. 217 (illustrated, p. 30, no. 11).

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jan Dibbets, 1972-1973, no. 37 (illustrated, unpaged, no. 16).
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Jan Dibbets, 1980, no. 113. This exhibition later travelled to Paris, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Bern, Kunsthalle Bern.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, Jan Dibbets, 1987 (illustrated, p.31) This exhibition later travelled to Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery and School of Art and Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum.
Deurle, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Verzameling Roger & Hilda Matthys-Colle, 2007, p. 140 (illustrated, p. 62).
Mechelen, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, 3x Jan Dibbets, 2011 (p. 63).

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Lot Essay

The gallery opened by Konrad Fischer in 1967 was nothing more than a passageway located on the Neubrückstrasse, Dusseldorf, which he enclosed with two glass walls on either end to create a room of about 3×11×3.90 meters. The first exhibition in the gallery was with Carl Andre, whom Fischer had never met and whose work he knew only from reproductions in international art magazines.
Fischer met Jan Dibbets six weeks when he and Dibbets participated in an exhibition at Galerie Dorothea Loehr in Frankfurt. Since Jan Dibbets’ first exhibition in 1968 at the gallery he is presented by Konrad Fischer Gallery. Dibbets said, 'I did exhibitions in Dusseldorf on account of Konrad. He was the most important art dealer of all in the last 25 years of the 20th century. Everything that was special was with Konrad.'

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