| 1985 | 'herman de vries', galerie d+c mueller-roth, Stuttgart |
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| 1988 | 'Het boek en de kunstenaar', Stadsgalerij, Heerlen and Galerie Asselijn, Amsterdam [group] |
| 1994 | 'herman de vries. aus der wirklichkeit', Galerie Kornfeld, Zürich |
| 2009 | 'Le Louvre invite Umberto Eco : Mille e tre', Musée du Louvre, Paris [group] |
herman de vries. 16 dm² - an essay
| catalogue number: | hdv 1979.081.1 |
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| creation date: | 1975/1979 |
| classification: | editions & publications |
| work type: | artist's publication |
| medium: | the book shows the complete series of collages of 473 dried plants, collected in the meadow near Eschenau; the book is divided in 16 parts; on the front of the pages the 473 plants and grasses are reproduced in Xerox-copy on paper (29.7 × 21 cm); a number followed by two letters indicates the location of the specimens in each of the 16 squares; the book contains a folded map (heliography, opened 59.8 × 47.5 cm) showing a square of 40 × 40 cm divided in 16 squares horizontally numbered A, B, C, D and vertically W, X, Y, Z and inside each square the location of all plants are marked and numbered 1 etc.; the handwritten titlepage is followed by a handwritten colophon and by 2 pages with photographs (8.8 × 13 cm) of 16 dm² in the meadow with and without the plants; bound in canvas |
| dimensions: | 30 × 22.3 × 6.7 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | notes and numbered 'realised 1975 / complete published in 1979 / by lydia megert, bern / in an edition of 50 copies / this is number [...]', signed and dated '© 1975 by herman de vries' on page 3 (graphite pencil) |
| edition: | edition lydia megert bern 1979
edition 50, numbered 1/50-50/50 |
| current repository: | [17/50] private collection [24/50] collection Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (rep.number AS 2016/3252) [28/50] collection Lenz Schönberg, Söll [46/50] collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam [49/50] Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen/Weserburg, Bremen (on loan from BFA, Tilburg 2018) [*/50] collection Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (rep. number V03005) [ */50] collection herman and susanne de vries [*/50] collection Victoria & Albert Museum, London [*/50] collection Groninger Museum, Groningen (rep. number 1979.0290) |
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| related works: | '16 dm² - een essay' (1975) and 1 dm² uit "16 dm²" - een essay (Galerie Magazijn : Groningen 1976) |
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| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
exhibition history
published references
| exhibition catalogue | JHet boek en de kunstenaar : Ulises Carrión, Hubertus Gojowczyk, Diederick van Kleef, et al. (Stadsgalerij Heerlen : Heerlen 1988) image repr. on page 16. |
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| 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) image repr. on page 158, 159 (catalogue number 50). |
| collection catalogue | José Brokken-Zijp und Hans Brokken, herman de vries - die Wirklichkeit im Bild. Künstlerbücher 1960-1985 (Sammlung Brokken Zijp Foundation of Art/Museum van Bommel van Dam : Venlo 2015) images repr. on pages 108-113, 108-112. |