journal de marrakech

catalogue number: hdv 2011.031.1
date created: 2010-2011
classification: journals & sketchbooks
work type: journal
medium: mixed media (artefacts, organic material, photographs) collected by herman and susanne de vries with Marion Reissner and Katharina Winterhalter during a trip to Marrakech - Morocco, on paper + title page
dimensions: 28 panels, each panel (framed) 36.2 × 26.2 × cm
installed dimensions 179 × 181 cm
signature and inscriptions: titled 'journal de marrakech', signed and dated on the title page (graphite pencil) + photograph of 'rue dabachi' (noted lower left title page)
each part titled [see 'extended description'] and signed (with initial) on the front (graphite pencil)
edition:
current repository: collection herman and susanne de vries
current repository number:
collecting history:
related works:
comment:
photo/scan: studio herman de vries/Bruno Schneyer, Zeil am Main
rights & reproduction: herman de vries
extended description
1st row, from left to right:

1. title page

2. 'tanneries, bab debbarh'

3. 'mellah'

4. 'djemaa el fna, à côté de café de france'

5. 'à côté mosque guessabine'

6-7. 'mellah'

8. 'azbest'

9. 'place djemaa el fna'

10. 'fondouk des herboristes, mellah'


2nd row, from left to right:

11. 'palais el bahia'

12. 'schinus mollis: rue douar graoua'

13. 'arset [el] maach: olivier'

14. 'jardin el bahia'

15-16. 'jardin palais el bahia'coll.: imessouane'

17. 'rabha kedima'

18. 'peganum harmala/l'harmel'

19. 'ranunculus spec./halluf'


3rd row, from left to right:

20. 'capparis spinosa/kappar'

21. 'lichene c.f. evernia prunastri/lababar'

22. 'juncus acutus/samar'

23. 'homolathecium aureum/subl'

24. 'cyperus esculentus'

25. 'punica granatum/raiane'

26. 'anastatica hierochuntica/[...]'

27. 'pinus halepensis / taida'

28. 'rue rabha kedima'

exhibition history
2012 'herman de vries. neue arbeiten', Galerie im Saal, Eschenau
2016 'El curso natural de las cosas = The Natural Flow of Things', La Casa Encendida de Fundación Montemadrid, Madrid [group]
2023 'herman de vries. beyond the horizon', Galerie Geiger, Konstanz
published references
exhibition catalogue El curso natural de las cosas = The Natural Flow of Things (La Casa Encendida : Madrid 2016) image repr. on pages 106-107.
exhibition catalogue herman de vries. beyond the horizon (Galerie Geiger : Konstanz 2023) image repr. on page 36-37.