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1989-00-00-1170
exhibition view Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen (1989)

das verschlossene paradies = the locked paradise

catalogue number: hdv 1989.111.7
date created: 1989
classification: installations
work type: installation
medium: the installation 'das verschlossene paradies' [the locked paradise] consisted of a greenhouse, placed in the museum, containing 21 [later 29] living specimens [see 'extended description'], collected by herman de vries, of 21 'mind-moving' plants. The glass house had to be closed to visitors (drugs)
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signature and inscriptions: uninscribed
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current repository: temporary installation
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photo/scan: archive herman de vries (1989)
rights & reproduction: herman de vries
extended description
  1. canabis indica - 'early girl'
  2. canabis indica x sativa - 'super skunk'
  3. brugmansia aurea - angels trumpet
  4. brugmansia + candida - angels trumpet
  5. datura stramonium var. stramonium - thornapple
  6. datura ferox
  7. datura inoxia var. inoxia - devils weed
  8. datura metel
  9. withania somnifera - dream root
  10. nicotiana rustica
  11. nicotiana tabacum
  12. brunfelsia grandiflora
  13. coleus amboinicus
  14. leonotis leonuris - ions tail
  15. sida rhombifolia
  1. piper betel
  2. acorus calamus - sweet flag
  3. heimia salicifolia - herb of life, sun opener
  4. tagetes lucida
  5. ipomoea violacea (i. tricolor) - 'heavenly blue', morning glory
  6. ipomoea violacea - purple morning glory
  7. ipomoea purpurea - 'alba'
  8. ephedra traudiana
  9. ephedra nevadensis
  10. erythoroxylon novogranatense - coca
  11. papaver somniferum - poppy
  12. argemone mexicana
  13. eschscholzia californica californian poppy
  14. peganum harmala
exhibition history
1989 'herman de vries. natural relations. eine skizze', Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen
1995 'herman de vries. aus der wirklichkeit', Städtische Galerie am Fischmarkt - Erfurt
1996 'Trilogi. Kunst-Natur-Videnskab = Trilogy. Art-Nature-Science', Botanisk Have, Copenhagen [group]
published references
text herman de vries, 'das verschlossene paradies', in herman de vries. to be : texte - textarbeiten - textbilder (Stuttgart 1995) 132-133.
text herman de vries, 'the locked paradise', in exhibition catalogue Trilogi/Kunst-natur-videnskab. Trilogy/Art-nature-science (Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik etc. : Odense 1996) 217-219.