herman de vries art catalogue

herman de vries. asiatische & eschenauer texte

catalogue number:	hdv 1975.081.4
date created:	1975
classification:	editions & publications
work type:	artist's publication
medium:	the portfolio includes 16 separate sheets in different sizes and 1 page with table of contents (photocopy, 29.7 × 21 cm), printed and handwritten texts, collages of leaves, paint over newspapers, a series of photographs in colour; grey cardboard portfolio with sticker with name of the artist, title, publisher and year of publication in print see also 'extended description'
dimensions:	variable dimensions portfolio 65.1 × 45.2 × 1 cm
signature and inscriptions:	some pages numbered and dated
edition:	verlag artists press, bern 1975 edition 50, numbered 1/50-50/50

current repository:	[32/50] collection Groninger Museum, Groningen (rep. number 1980.0288) [46/50] [/50] private collection, Amsterdam [/50] collection Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (rep. number AS 2016/3241)
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photo/scan:	courtesy Lydia Megert Editions, Bern
rights & reproduction:	herman de vries

extended description

1. 'to be' postcard printed on rice paper by Sangam-Press, Kathmandu [1974]

2. 'different & identic (30.5 × 39 cm) in English and Nepalese on thin paper by Himali Chapakhana, Pokhara; signed (graphite pencil) on the reverse

3. 'different' [??] (30.5 × 39 cm) in Nepalese on thin paper by Himali Chapakhana, Pokhara; signed (graphite pencil) on the reverse

4. 'some restaurants in kathmandu', printed by Sangam-Press : Kathmandu 1974

5. print with statement 'my poetry is the world' in Lao and English printed by Laovathana : Vientiane 1975 for artists press : Bern

6. print with text 'poesie actuelle | EXPOSITION | COMPLETE | de | luang-prabang [...]', printed by Laovathana : Vientiane 1975 for artists press : Bern

7. enlarged telegram sent by herman de vries to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 3.2.1975

8. sheet of paper folded two times (4 pages, folded 25 × 32.4 cm), on page 3 ten leaves of a beech tree in two rows and below handwritten text

9. 1 sheet of paper folded two times (4 pages, folded 25 × 32.4 cm), on page 3 one leave of a beech tree, on page 4 the handwritten text "- poem - herman de vries. 1975

10. a page of a newspaper (57 × 40 cm), the text is illegible with crosses in black felt pen ["die entscheidungen des dichters I"], signed with pencil

11. a page of a newspaper (57 × 40 cm), the text is illegible with erasures (lines) in black felt pen, the illustrations still visible ["die entscheidungen des dichters II"], signed with pencil

12. a sheet of paper as torn from a book (21 × 13 cm) with short text in Dutch and German "een vruchtbare wandeling" | "ein fruchtbare wanderung", printed in black and signed on the reverse

13. sheet of paper (35 × 50 cm) with traces of a text, later erased; on the reverse the original text from Wittgenstein, Tractatus 7 'wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen'; signed

14. small sheet of paper (15 × 10.5 cm) with handwritten text 'all', on the reverse signed and dated

15. on a white sheet of paper (30 × 44 cm) three colour photographs (9 × 12.8 cm); the photos show footprints on the sand and a gulf; signed on the reverse

16. a white sheet of paper (30 × 50 cm), empty on the front side ('weiss'); signed on the reverse followed by '(back-side)'

exhibition history

1985	'herman de vries', Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart
1986	'Herman de Vries', Coracle Press Gallery, London
1989	'herman de vries. natural relations – eine skizze', Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen (5 pices from the portfolio)
1998	'herman de vries - reizen 1970-1998. documents of a stream', Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede

published references

text	herman de vries, 'een vruchtbare wandeling = eine fruchtbare wanderung', in herman de vries, asiatische & eschenauer texte (artists press : bern 1975). Reprinted in to be : texte - textarbeiten - textbilder (Stuttgart 1995) 80 [also available as recorded text].
text	herman de vries, 'über die "asiatische und eschenauer texte"', in exhibition catalogue herman de vries. werken 1954-1980: 1. informeel, monochroom, wit; 2. random objectivation; 3. experimenten met taal; 4. chance & change; 5. werkelijkheid als zelfstandig document, natuur; 6. postal messages / [samenstelling tentoonstelling en catalogus Frans Haks, Paul Vries] (Groninger Museum : Groningen 1980) 183-186. Translated in French in herman de vries. les livres & les publications : catalogue raisonné / textes de herman de vries, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Didier Mathieu (Centre des livres d'artistes/pays-paysage : saint-yrieix-la-perche 2005) 135-138.
article	Piet de Jonge, 'De "asiatische & eschenauer text" van Herman de Vries, in Akt Aktueel tijdschrift 5 (1981) 3, 35-48.
exhibition catalogue	Kunst van Nu in het Groninger Museum. Aanwinsten 1978-1982 = Kunst unserer Zeit im Groninger Museum. Neuerwerbungen 1978-1982 (Martinipers : Groningen 1982) no image repr., 100 (catalogue number 248).
catalogue raisonné	herman de vries. les livres et les publications : catalogue raisonné / textes de herman de vries, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Didier Mathieu (Centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) images repr. on pages 133-134, 132 (catalogue number 30).