santuary Münster
| catalogue number: | 1997.112.1 |
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| date created: | 1997 |
| classification: | the real works: installations |
| work type | environment |
| medium: | brickwall and plants growing inside the brickwall |
| dimensions: | height 3 m, diameter 14 m, width of wall 0.4 m, height of sandstone coping 0.55 m |
| signature and inscriptions: | inscribed upon the sandstone ledge on top of the wall, above each of the four openings, are writings from the 'Tsá-upanishad' (roughly translated): "om. this is perfect; that is perfect; perfect comes from perfect; take perfect from perfect and the remainder is perfect." |
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| current repository: | meadow between the northern part of the Schlossgarten and Einsteinstraße, permanent installation (owner is LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster) |
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| comment: | from the start the NABU-AG Botanik in Münster annually documents the natural development of the vegetation in the sanctuarium and has a complete list of species created |
| photo/scan: | archive herman de vries/Roman Mensing, Münster (artdoc.de) |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
published references
| exhibition catalogue | Zeitgenössische Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997 [= Contemporary Sculpture. Projects in Münster 1997] Westfälisches Landesmuseum 22. Juni-28. September 1997 (Verlag Gerd Hatje : Ostfildern 1997) 430-435. |
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| monograph | herman de vries. chance and change (Thames & Hudson : London 2006) image repr. on pages 126-127. |
| article | Arnon Ben-Dro, 'Nature in Context: A Situated Study of herman de vries’s Sanctuaries', in OBOE Journal 2, no. 1 (2021) 22-39. |
| monograph | Wolfgang Aull, die sanctuarien von herman de vries (Eschenau 2025) 8-13 (ill.), 106-107. |