renata

catalogue number: 2007.051.1
date created: 2007
classification: works on paper
work type: ash rubbing
medium: ashes, collected in Hexenbruch, Würzburg-Oberzell in 2006, rubbed on paper
dimensions: 100 × 140 cm
framed
signature and inscriptions: titled 'renata', signed and dated on the front (graphite pencil)
edition:
current repository: collection Centre Georges Pompidou/MNAM-CCI, Paris
current repository number: AM 2025-495
collecting history: Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris (2025)
related works: ashes. würzburg-oberzell : hexenbruch (2006)
comment: ashes and earth of Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau, sub-prioress of the convent of Unterzell in the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, accused of witchcraft, she was beheaded and burned at the witches' quarry in June 1749.
photo/scan: studio herman de vries/Bruno Schneyer, Zeil am Main
rights & reproduction: herman de vries
exhibition history
2008 'herman de vries', Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris
2009 'herman de vries. all this here - natur: werkgruppen und installationen', Schloss Moyland, Bedburg Hau
2010 'herman de vries. all this here - natur: werkgruppen und installationen', Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, Schweinfurt
2012 'herman de vries. transit', Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris
2024 'herman de vries. ma poésie est le monde', Espace de l'Art Concret - Mouans-Sartoux
published references
exhibition catalogue herman de vries. all this here; natur: werkgruppen und installationen (Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland : Bedburg Hau 2009) image repr. on page 77, 132 (catalogue number 29).
exhibition catalogue 'herman de vries. transit : Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris', issue of Semaine. Revue hebdomadaire pour l'art contemporain No. 292 (February 2012) image repr. on page [11].
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 page 43.