herman de vries - art catalogue
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2007-00-00-1100
exhibition view Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo (2009)
43 parts of the installation 'mesa' (from top left to bottom right)

mesa

catalogue number: hdv 2007.111.1
date created: 1996-2007
classification: the real works: installations
work type: floor installation
medium: mixed media
dimensions: 43 parts, variable dimensions [see 'extended description']
installed dimensions 240 × 220 × 22 cm
signature and inscriptions: certificate
edition:
current repository: collection Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo
current repository number: KM 131.260
collecting history: acquired in 2007
related works: a few years ago herman de vries started another floor installation titled 'mesa II'. Still unfinished
comment:
photo/scan: courtesy Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo
rights & reproduction: herman de vries/Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo
extended description

01. cooking pot (22 × 28 cm) - Western Africa (2002)

02. beech branch (70 × 11.5 × 9.4 cm) - Steigerwald (1997)

03. food bowl (6.5 × 16.2 × 21.5 cm) - Western Africa (2002)

04. frame drum / bendir (25 × 8 cm) - Morocco (1985)

05. resinous substance, frankincense / zaoui (9.5 × 10.2 × 8.8 cm) - Morocco (1996)

06. nest of a blackbird (13 × 9 cm) - Eschenau

07. nest (4.4 × 3.1 × 4.4 cm) - Oakland CA (1999)

08. waterjug (17 × 23.5 cm) - El Cercado near Chipude, La Gomera (1993) [exhibited in 1998 in Stadthalle Ulm 'das geheimnis des wassers']

09. stone (21.2 × 18 × 19.3 cm) - Steigerwald (1997)

10. bundle of rope (ca. 43.5 × 40 × 10 cm) - Hassfurt (1974)

11. rock crystal (17 × 11.5 × 6 cm) - unknown

12. dragon's blood (ca. 10.5 × 8 cm) - Aichstetten (1998)

13. ash stick (29 × 4.6 cm) - Steigerwald (2005)

14. bone (18 × 14 × 13 cm) - Hundsrück

15. skull cup (18 × 13.9 × 7 cm) - Labrang, Tibet (2003)

16. bundle of twigs (42 × 13.5 × 6 cm) - Mouans-Sartoux (1991)

17. tree stump (9 × 24 × 30 cm) - Steigerwald

18. mala, rudraksha (88 cm) - Pashupatinath, Nepal

19. book (36 × 33 × 5.2 cm) - Kandy, Ceylon (1971)

20. torn root section (32.7 × 17 × 10 cm) - Steigerwald (1997)

21. charred wood (20 × 19.5 × 12.5 cm) - Steigerwald (1999)

22. splitting wedge (24.2 × 4.5 cm) - Westheim (1987)

23. limestone (13 × 9.6 × 6.5 cm) - Digne-les-Bains

24. brimstone (24.5 × 20.5 × 14.5 cm) - Stiftland (1994)

25. sickle (24.6 × 3 cm) - Hassfurt

26. measuring rod, broken off (3.2 × 1.2 × 24 cm) - Eschenau

27. stone-age knives (9 × 4.3 + 7.5 &ti8mes; 3 cm) - Anatolia (2003)

28. ayahuasca (15 × 3.5 cm + 22.7 × 2.5 cm) - Berlin (2003)

29. peyotl (4.1 × 3.6 × 4.5 cm) - Lepe, La Gomera (1972)

30. henbane (30.8 × 2.5 cm) - Sulzheim

31. bar of gold (1 kg) - Hassfurt

32. corncob - Zell am Ebersberg (1999)

33. mortar with pestle (17.5 × 5.5 + 17.5 × 8.5 cm) - Amsterdam (1970)

34. basalt rock (7.4 × 8 × 11 cm) - Hermigua, La Gomera (1982)

35. prismatic glass (26 × 4 cm) - Gavdos (1978)

36. artefact (3.5 × 10.2 × 14.5 cm) - Agadir (2005)

37. green serpentine (5 × 10.5 × 15.3 cm) - Oberengadin

38. sankha, conch shell (16.5 × 8 cm) - Bombay

39. padlock, corroded (9.5 × 6.5 × 2 cm) - Steigerwald

40. drill core (20 × 4 + 19 × 3 cm) - Digne-les-Bains

41. hoe (15.5 × 16 cm) - Eschenau

42. mushroom with electrical artefact (17 × 4.9 × 5.4 cm (electronic part) + 16 × 9.6 × 9.5 cm (mushroom)) - Steigerwald (2005)

43. cymbal (6.5 × 1.5 cm) - Kathmandu (1989)

exhibition history
2009 'herman de vries. unity', Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo
published references
monograph mesa. katalog mit dokumentation und einigen anmerkungen und zusätzlichen informationen = catalogue with documentation, some annotations and additional information 1996-2007 (Stichting Kröller Müller Museum : Otterlo 2009) 152 pp. Edition 500.