current repository: | collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo |
current repository number: | KM 134.033 |
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comment: | 'my poetry is the world ...' was made by herman de vries in 1974 on the occasion of the first Symposion in Gorinchem, a periodically organized art event for constructivist and concrete art. The tile lay on the sidewalk in front of Kunstcentrum Badhuis in Gorinchem (run by Antoinette Hilgemann-de Stigter) from 1974 to 1984 and then from 1988 to 2008 in front of the gallery Art Affairs in Amsterdam. In 2015 Antoinette & Ewerdt Hilgemann donated the stone to the Kröller-Müller Museum, where it lies in the path to the sculpture garden of the where visitors can walk across it |
photo/scan: | courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo/archive Art Affairs, Amsterdam (photo 1974) |
rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |