| 1976 | 'herman de vries. 16 dm² - an essay + collages, tekeningen grafiek en publicaties vanaf 1961', Galerie Magazijn, Groningen |
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| 2014 | 'herman de vries. all', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam |
| 2017 | 'herman de vries. chance & change', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León |
| 2020 | 'herman de vries. how green is the grass?', Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin |
| 2024 | 'herman de vries. ma poésie est le monde', Espace de l'Art Concret Mouans-Sartoux |
| 2025 | 'herman de vries. 70 jaar natuur als kunstwerk', Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede |
16 dm² - an essay
| catalogue number: | 1975.111.1 |
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| creation date: | 1975 |
| classification: | the real works: installations |
| work type: | installation, collage series |
| medium: | point of departure is a folded map (opened 59.8 × 47.5 cm) showing a square of 40 × 40 cm divided in 16 squares (each 1 × 1 dm) horizontally numbered A, B, C, D and vertically W, X, Y, Z; inside each square the location of all plants are marked and numbered 1 etc. The result is 473 plants, dried, mounted on paper and stored in cellophane envelops; with 2 photographs and a handwritten text by herman de vries. The map is dated 5/6-9-1975 |
| dimensions: | 473 sheets each 31.5 × 22.5 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | [] |
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| current repository: | collection herman and susanne de vries |
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| related works: | the collage series was shown for the first time in Galerie Magazijn, Groningen in 1976; to accompany the exhibition an edition was issued: 1 dm² uit "16 dm²" - een essay (Galerie Magazijn : Groningen 1976) the complete installation was published in 1979 as a book 16 dm² - an essay (Edition Lydia Megert : Bern 1979) |
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| photo/scan: | studio herman de vries/George Kolbe Museum, Berlin
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede: Agnes Scholte & Marinus Augustijn, Groningen |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
exhibition history
published references
| exhibition catalogue | herman de vries. all (Stedelijk Museum Schiedam : Schiedam 2014) no image repr., 88. |
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| exhibition catalogue | herman de vries. chance & change (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León : León 2017) 11, images repr. on pages between [93-97]. |
| exhibition catalogue | Cees de Boer, 'ein universum auf 16dm², in herman de vries. how green is the grass? (Georg Kolbe Museum : Berlin 2020) 50-55, images repr. on pages 68-73. |
| exhibition catalogue | all this here. herman de vries pioneer between science, nature and art / Cees de Boer (Rijksmuseum Twenthe : Enschede / Jap Sam Books : Prinsenbeek 2025) image repr. on page 126 (ill. number 86), 126-128, 147. |
| exhibition catalogue | herman de vries – mouans-sartoux, paris, eschenau, digne-les-bains, trédrez-locquémeau / Edited by Nadine Gomez-Passamar, Aline Vidal, e.a. Contributions by Nadine Gomez-Passamar et Anne Mœglin-Delcroix (Syndicat-Empire : Paris 2025) images repr. on pages 50, 119 (detail). |