Svetlana Alpers

Svetlana Alpers

Svetlana Alpers Professor emerita of art history at Berkeley University and a specialist in 17th-century Dutch art. Professor Alpers has published in Art History and other journals. She is the author of Rembrandt’s Enterprise and the authoritative but controversial...
Jan Andriesse

Jan Andriesse

Jan Andriesse Painter of light, space and light reflections on water. A gifted observer with a fascination for light effects. Jan Andriesse spends hours in his houseboat contemplating the sparkle of light on water. His large, abstract canvases capture the changing...
Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets An avant-garde and influential Dutch artist with an international reputation, whose oeuvre centres on light, observation, perspective and space. Dibbets’s works have found their way into numerous collections, including those of the De Pont Gallery in...
Vincent Icke

Vincent Icke

Vincent Icke Professor of theoretical astronomy at Leiden University and professor of cosmology in Amsterdam. Vincent Icke is currently working on three research projects. One is a study of the formation of structure in the universe and aims to explain the...
Günther Können

Günther Können

Günther Können Physicist and head of the climate analysis department of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. Like Vincent Icke, Dr Können was also impressed by Marcel Minnaert’s Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air, notably the second volume, Light...
James Turrell

James Turrell

James Turrell A key figure in the Los Angeles-based Light and Space Movement. Turrell’s work is an exploration of space, light and observation. The aim of his projects is to make people focus on the act of observing. He has created outdoor installations in several...