herman de vries art catalogue

journal from a visit to leros and patmos

catalogue number:	hdv 1996.031.1
date created:	1996-1998
classification:	journals & sketchbooks
work type	journal
medium:	mixed media (artefacts, earth/soil, plants, photographs), collected in 1996 during a stay on Patmos and Leros - Greece, on paper + title page
dimensions:	42 panels, each panel (framed) 36.5 × 26.5 × cm installed dimensions
signature and inscriptions:	titled 'journal from a visit to leros and patmos', signed 'herman & susanne de vries' and dated on the title page (graphite pencil) titled/dated [see 'extended description'], [sometimes] signed (with initial) and dated on each part on the front (graphite pencil)
edition:

current repository:	collection FRAC Bretagne, Rennes
current repository number:	01957/1-42
collecting history:	acquired through Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris (2001)
related works:
comment:
photo/scan:	courtesy Frac Bretagne/Hervé Beurel
rights & reproduction:	herman de vries

extended description

1st row, left to right:

1. title page with photograph (12.5 × 19 cm)

2. earth rubbings, numbered 1-12

3. earth rubbings, numbered 13-19a, 19b-23

4. earth rubbings, numbered 24-29I, 29II-34

5. earth rubbings, numbered 35-46

6. earth rubbings, numbered 47-58

7. 'collected: plefouti littoral 25 09 1998'

8. 'collected: agia marina october 1997'

9. 'some greek artefacts. collected: plefouti beach sept. 1997'

10. 'plefouti september 1977'

11. '36 / artemis temple / partheni'

12. 'olive. collected: artemis temple, partheni 19 09 1996'

13. 'pistacia lentiscus. collected: artemis temple 19 09 1996'

14. 'collected: partheni 05 10 1997'

2nd row, left to right:

15. 'collected: artemis temple 9 09 1996'

16. 'collected: artemis temple 19 09 1996'

17. 'plantago lagopus. collected: artemis temple 19 09 1996'

18-20. 'quercus macrolepis. collected 21 09 1996 agia spiridou'

21. 'from earth: castro'

22. 'collected: alinda, garden of nikos varna 26 09 1997'

23. 'limonium vulgara. collected: 26 09 1997, san isidoros'

24. 'limonium spec. collected 06 10 1997'

25. 'tamaris parviflora. collected: plefouti 21 09 1996'

26. 'vitex agnus-castus. collected: pantheli 21 09 1996'

27. 'vitex agnus-castus. collected: agia spiridou 21 09 1996'

28. 'from earth: katsoumi'

3rd row, left to right:

29. 'quercus macrolepis. young twig. collected: agia spiridou 21 09 1996'

30. 'eucalyptus spec. collected: alinda 19 09 1996'

31. 'pinus brutic. collected: agia skioura 19 09 1996'

32. 'ceratonia siliqua. collected: 19 09 1996'

33. 'schimus mollis. collected: partheni 19.09 1996'

34. 'collected: plefouti 09 10 1998: collage trouvé: chance & change document'

35. 'collected: plefouti 09 10 1998: collage trouvé: chance & change document'

36. earth rubbings numbered 1-12

37. earth rubbings numbered 1-12

38. 'collected: 24 09 1996 s. nicolaos'

39. 'collected : apocalypsos, 21 09 1996'

40. 'hyosciamus albus. collected: hora, monasterio 24 09 1996'

41. 'pistacia lentiscus. collected: s. nicolaos 02 09 1996. patmos'

42. 'collected: beach below agia skioura coll. october 1997'

exhibition history

1999	'herman de vries. die reisejournale', Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nuremberg
2001	'La Bretagne collectionne l'art de notre temps. Les vingt ans du Frac Bretagne : L'expérience du paysage', Domaine départemental de Trévarez, Saint-Goazec [group]
2002	Collège Les Rochers Sévigné, Vitré
2004	'Peinture Nature, oeuvres des collections des Frac Bretagne et Pays de la Loire', Chapelle des Calvairiennes, Mayenne [group]
2004	'La mer sans arrêt', Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Brieuc [group]
2004	'Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure', Le Triangle, Rennes [group]
2006	'Approches critiques. Fragments geographiques : oeuvres de la collection du FRAC Bretagne', Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes [group]
2007	'Par les champs et par les grèves', Agence culturelle de Bretagne, Josselin [group]
2010	'De Geer van Velde à Rineke Dijkstra. Un panorama de l'art néerlandais dans les collections des Frac', Centre culturel des Pays-Bas, Institut néerlandais, Paris [group]
2013	'Ulysses, l'autre mer', FRAC Bretagne, Rennes [group]
2014	'Description et collecte', Ecole supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation, Vannes [group]
2014	'Paysages contemporains. Oeuvres de la collection du Frac Bretagne', Espace François-Mitterrand, Guingamp [group]
2016	'Dedans/Dehors', Galerie d'art Albert Bourgeois, Fougères [group]
2016	'Tant de Temps!', Musée Soulages, Rodez [group]

published references

exhibition catalogue	herman de vries. die reisejournale. diary of a visit to pashupatinath [...] (Kunsthaus Nürnberg : Nürnberg 1999) image repr.on page 9.
collection catalogue	La Bretagne collectionne l'art de notre temps. Les vingt ans du Frac Bretagne (FRAC Bretagne : Châteaugiron 2001).
exhbition catalogue	Tant de Temps! 50 artistes contemporains au musée Soulages (Musée Soulages : Rodez 2016) image repr. on page 74-75.