Untitled

Untitled

Jan Dibbets

1971

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This print shows a grid of nine black-and-white panels. Each panel has a fence made of crisscrossed lines and shadowy shapes behind it. The fence looks the same in every panel, but the shadows change slightly. The artist played with how light and dark shift across the same fence. It’s like a puzzle—why does the fence stay the same while the shadows move? Look up lithography next to see how this print was made.

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