| 2023 | 'Blank. Raw. Illegible ... Artists' Books as Statements (1960–2022)', Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren [group] |
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| catalogue number: | hdv 1962.081.1 |
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| date created: | 1962 |
| classification: | editions & publications |
| work type: | artist's publication |
| medium: | 200 empty pages except page [5] indicating title, author, publisher and impressum and [] with an introduction by J.C. van Schagen [invisible] |
| dimensions: | 20.2 × 21.6 × 3 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | signed and numbered (in white pencil) |
| edition: | 5 (only 1 for sale), numbered [1/5-]5/5 published by M.J. Israel : Arnhem 1962, printed by D.A. Gubbels added: 4 white collages |
| current repository: | [5/5] Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
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| collecting history: | [5/5] the sole copy for sale was acquired by Hanns Sohm, Markgröningen |
| related works: | the book Hansjörg Mayer published in 1967 had another format (500 copies). Another (third) edition came out in Bern (artists press, [1980]); indicated as an edition of 5000 but only 100 were made. It is a 'revised edition', as there is no text anymore in the book or at the outside. the text is here only on abanderole [i.e. wrapper], so if you take away the banderole, the book is empty, no title, no (empty) introduction, anonym." In 2012 and 2014 more white books were published. |
| comment: | this blank book appeared in several versions. In a letter to Anne Moeglin-Delcroix of January 16, 1997, herman de vries describes them: "i liked simply the idea of expressing 'white' as it was and make an almost empty publication, but not empty of content. later i made the book wit [= white], in 1962, in 5 copies, from which only one was for sale. |
| photo/scan: | herman de vries archive |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
exhibition history
published references
| catalogue raisonné | herman de vries. les livres et les publications: catalogue raisonné (centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) image repr. on page 98 (catalogue number 4). |
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| exhibition catalogue | Blank. Raw. Illegible ... Artists' Books as Statements (1960–2022) (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König : Cologne 2023) image repr. on page 19, 126-131 (catalogue number 2). |