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catalogue incomplète d’exposition complète de luang-prabang

catalogue number: hdv 1976.081.1
date created: 1975/1976
classification: editions & publications
work type: artist's publication, photograph series
medium: 35 black/white photographs based on the random system, made on January 18,1975 in Luang-Prabang - Laos, on grey cardboard + photocopied poster (1975), in cardboard box
dimensions: each photo 10.5 × 14.4 cm (cardboard 14.8 × 21 cm )
box 16.8 × 22.3 × 10 cm
signature and inscriptions: handwritten title card 'catalogue incomplète / d’exposition complète / de luang-prabang / : / a random sample of my visual chances, / 18-1-1975', signed, editor and dated, number of the edition (graphite pencil)
a second card with stamp 'this is different when you receive this' and a stamp of the publisher (in red ink)
edition: artists press bern 1976
edition 25 (only 8 [10?] realized)
re-edited by editions lydia megert, bern in 1992 in an edition of 25, numbered 26/50 - 50/50
current repository: [2/25] collection herman and susanne de vries
[4/25] collection Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
[32/50] collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
[35/50] collection Centre national des arts plastiques
[42/50] collection herman and susanne de vries
[*/50] collection Groninger Museum, Groningen (rep. number 1976.0207)
current repository number: [4/25] AS 2016/3253
[32/50] 1998.1.0013
[35/50] FNAC 03-832
collecting history:
related works: original photo series 'a random sample of my visual chances of luang prabang' (1975)
photocopied poster (1975)
the stamp 'this is different when you receive this' (1975)
comment:
photo/scan: studio herman de vries/l-cs
rights & reproduction: herman de vries
exhibition history
1980 'herman de vries. werken 1954-1980', Groninger Museum, Groningen
1982 'les très riches heures de herman de vries', Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern
1994 'herman de vries. aus der wirklichkeit', Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich
2009 'Le Louvre invite Umberto Eco : Mille e tre', Musée du Louvre, Paris [group]
2012 'Explorateurs. Oeuvres du Centre national des arts plastiques', Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables-d'Olonne [group]
2018 'Premier Rang : catalogues en tous genres', ENSA, Limoges [group]
2019 'herman de vries. all all all : werke 1957-2019. Gerhard-Altenbourg-Preis 2019, Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg
2019 'Trois fois rien', Centre national de la danse, Pantin [group]
published references
contribution 'a random sample of my visual chances in luang prabang (laos) at 18.1.1975', in the English edition of Museumjournaal n°6 (1976) 250-251.
exhibition catalogue herman de vries. werken 1954-1980: 1. informeel, monochroom, wit; 2. random objectivation; 3. experimenten met taal; 4. chance & change; 5. werkelijkheid als zelfstandig document, natuur; 6. postal messages / [samenstelling tentoonstelling en catalogus Frans Haks, Paul Vries] (Groninger Museum : Groningen 1980) no image repr. (catalogue number 4.18).
catalogue raisonné herman de vries. les livres et les publications. catalogue raisonné (Centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) no image repr., 168 (catalogue number 36).
collection/exhibition catalogue herman de vries. all all all : werke 1957-2019. Gerhard-Altenbourg-Preis 2019 / Lindenau-Museum Altenburg (Deutscher Kunstverlag : München 2019) image repr. on page 84/85, 151.