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Discobole - Lithophone
Marble
1971-2011
∅ 27 cm

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Door vinnen heen
Black Zimbabwe granite
2011
180 x 90 cm

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Dominique Stroobant (°1947)

1947 Born in Antwerp, Belgium.
Lives and works in Miseglia di Carrara, Italy.
1966 -70 Pupil of Stan Hensen and Jean Guiraud, St. Luc, Brussels. Mainly carves stones from Soignies recuperated from demolitions among which a lintel weighing 15 tons of the door of Berchem (Brilschans); Children call it an “Elephant”.
1970-71 State grant for Carrara where he has been living since then. Meets Kenneth Davis with whom he conceives the first “Floating Stone”.
1972 First lithophonic experiments
1973 Meets the painter Jef Verheyen with whom he will conceive marble works
1975 “World’s biggest granite stamp ®” for Wout Vercammen
1976 Film and videotape “Behind those stones”, an essay about antiauthoritarian use of stone with Dirk Van den Eynde. Contributions of Matthias Hietz, Karl Prantl, and the quarry workers of the "Lega Cavatori di Torano"
1977 Constructs his first pinhole camera as a sunshine-recorder. With exposure times of few hours, till six months. Further he will build cameras of various shapes and sizes from 35 mm till emulsions of 10 m. length (Genève-1982). Eugène Baie award of the province Antwerp for sculpture
1978-81 Water line “The three roses”, Collection Knauf, Liége.
1979 Organises with Otorino Tonelli and Egidio Marino, on behalf of the FIAP of Carrara, an international competition for a memorial for the victims of fascism.
1981 Meets Max Bill for the first time through Marc Hostettler.
1983-86 Founder of Esagono Snc with SGF Scultura for the realization of “Kontinuität” by Max Bill, commissioned by the Deutsche Bank.
1987 First contacts with Eric Renner and Pinhole Resource.
1988 Creates a memorial for the victims of Marcinelle inside of the site of the coal mine “bois du cazier” sponsored by an association of Italian coal mine workers.
1990 Designs and constructs pinholes and pinhole mounts for the “Caravana obscura” (a van transformed into a mobile camera by Veronique Massinger and Christine Felten and becomes the first user on the occasion of “Antwerpen-Haarlem”, celebrating the fifth centenary of Frans Hals.
1991 Collaborates with the Biselli spa company in Carrara, with whom he has worked for 20 years, to make “Steps without end” or “Prinzip Hoffnung” a memorial by Max Bill, dedicated to Ernst Bloch, in Ludwigshafen.
1994 Meeting with Jean Gimpel and Tiziano Mannoni and (in 2002) Roland Bechmann “Villard de Honnecourt” 2 exhibitions(Carrara, 2003, Genua, 2004)
1996 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
1999-2004 Co-curator « Torano Notte e Giorno »
2000 SGF Scultura - « I Quaderni della scuola di Torano »
2002 « Senza obiettivo », Santa Maria della scala, Siena
2007 Artempo Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2008 Academia Qui es-tu?, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2009 In-Finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2011 TRA The Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2012 Dominique Stroobant Tempi e Fili – Seil und Seit, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp.
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