Dominique Stroobant


Dominique Stroobant is a Belgian sculptor, photographer and graphic artist living in Italy.

Life

Since 1970 he has been living in Carrara, where he resides and works in the small hamlet of Miseglia.
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 SpA, one of the first two to cut granite since the 1950s in Carrara.
With Paolo Gioli he was one of the photographer who developed pinhole photography in Europe. In 1977 he documented with his selft-built pinhole camera the movement of the sun.
He worked with Max Bill. Amongst their most important artwork is the sculpture Kontinuität in Frankfurt.
He has been a friend and collaborator of ZERO artist Jef Verheyen.
In 1988 he carved a memorial for the casualties of the 1956 mining accident of Marcinelle, inside the site of the coal mine.
In 2013 he was the moderator at the round table discussion "Visivi. La fotografia attraverso i linguaggi contemporanei", in Florence at Museo Galileo.

Work

Stroobant was mainly known in his early years for the investigation of the reuse of industrial materials, but later focused his attention on political and philosophical themes.
Another the crucial aspect of his activity is also the role of scientific principles in art.

Gallery

Books

Documentaries

He met in 1969 South-African Mona Johnson and had two children, Ish-maël and Mascha.