pierres de bretagne

catalogue number: 2025.111.
date created: 2025
classification: installations
work type: installation
medium: 16 stones, collected in Brittany - France, on pedestals
dimensions: stones variable
each pedestal 12 × 12 × 98 cm
signature and inscriptions: uninscribed
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comment: stones: 1. granite from Le Yaudet, Varisque (300 million years), Loquémeau 2. gabbro, Varisque (300 million years), Trégastel 3. quartz with amethyst passages (300 million years), Pleumeur-Bodou 4. altered gneis (2 billiom years), Locquémeau 5. gneis, Icartian (2 billion years), Locquémeau 6. layered volcano-sedimentary rock, Cadomian (600 million years), Locquémeau 7. granite from Le Yaudet, Varisque (300 million years), Loquémeau 8. typical orthogneis (2 billion years), the oldest dated rock in France, Trebeurden 9. milky quartz with geodes, age indeterminate, Loquémeau 10. dolerite (540 million years), Louannec 11. granite from Le Yaudet, Varisque (300 million years), Loquémeau 12. milky quartz with geodes, age indeterminate, Loquémeau 13. volcano-sedimentary rock, Cadomian (600 million years), Locquémeau 14. volcano-sedimentary rock, Cadomian (600 million years), Locquémeau 15. Traouiero granite, Varisque (300 million years), Trégastel 16. Primel-Trégastel granite, Varisque (300 million years), Locquémeau
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rights & reproduction: herman de vries
exhibition history
2025 'herman de vries. la nature elle-même', Galerie du Dourven, Trédrez-Locquémeau
published references
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 pages 40, 61, 68, 101 and 102.