2007 Untitled (three thin figures and stick)

There are many artworks in Dibble’s oeuvre where more than one of his themes is present within the work, sometimes from an overlapping of two genres blending into each other, sometimes just ideas picked up and intermeshed.

Untitled (three thin figures and stick), 2007 is one of these sculptures. In 2006 the artist had played with a series that culminated in an exhibition titled “In the Sticks”, featuring various scenes set against a backdrop of standing sticks, cast off molds of driftwood ‘finds’. This vertical repetition made a harmonious backdrop for the other items. In this specific work only one of these sticks remains, set beside a grouping of thin men, the “Giacometti figures” as they were referred to, for their obvious referral to the Swiss sculptor’s works. The thin men have a strange, lonely presence in Dibble’s work. Some are alone, some in pairs, but even in the larger groups they still look as if each is standing stationary in their own isolated space. This series was only made for around a year.