Dominique Stroobant | |
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| Born | March 16, 1947 |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer and sculptor |
| Spouse | Mymona („Mona“) Johnson (m. 1973;died 1998) |
Dominique Stroobant (born March 16, 1947) is a Belgian sculptor, photographer and graphic artist living in Italy.
Since 1970, he has resided and worked in the small hamlet of Miseglia, Carrara. [2] [3]
In 1972 he created with Kenneth Davis and Philippe Toussaint the Floating Stones Group.
In 1976 he started his collaboration with the enterprise Fratelli Biselli S.p.A., one of the first two to cut granite since the 1950s in Carrara. [4]
With Paolo Gioli he was one of the photographer who developed pinhole photography [5] in Europe. [6] [7] In 1977 he documented with his selft-built [3] pinhole camera the movement of the sun.
He worked with Max Bill. Amongst their most important artwork is the sculpture Kontinuität in Frankfurt. [8]
He has been a friend and collaborator of ZERO artist Jef Verheyen. [9]
In 1988 he carved a memorial for the casualties of the 1956 mining accident of Marcinelle, inside the site of the coal mine. [2]
In 2013 he was the moderator at the round table discussion "Visivi. La fotografia attraverso i linguaggi contemporanei" ("Visual. Photography through contemporary languages"), in Florence at Museo Galileo. [10]
In his early years, Stroobant gained recognition for exploring the reuse of industrial materials. However, he later shifted his focus to political and philosophical themes. [3]
Everyone at Carrara knows that stone weeps. ... All of us have experienced how alive stones are, that they behave like sponges, can bend, expand and that they have a voice ... for one who listens
Another pivotal aspect of his work is the integration of scientific principles into art. [3]
He met in 1969 South-African Mona Johnson (from Cape Town) and had two children, Ish-maël (*1972) and Mascha (*1978).
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In the USA, however, critics tended to ignore pinhole photography in art, whereas Paolo Gioli and Dominique Stroobant received more attention in Europe
I primi “scatti” di sei mesi furono dell 1979 e publicati l’anno dopo (ICC, Antwerpen). La prima recensione in Italia è dell giugno 82 nella rivista Reflex. e poi publicate in numerosissime occasioni. (Romano Fea in Fotografare) . numero 47 (2001) di Pinhole Journal - descrizione detagliata del procedimento— Dominique Stroobant, comment in Smargiassi, Michele (16 April 2010). "Un lunghissimo istante". Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 14 March 2017.
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