| 2023 | 'Blank. Raw. Illegible ... Artists' Books as Statements (1960–2022)', Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren [group] |
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wit - white - 白い - [white sanskrit]
| catalogue number: | hdv 1980.081.1 |
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| date created: | 1980 |
| classification: | editions & publications |
| work type: | artist's publication |
| medium: | 362 pages paper in white cover; on a broad white strip (belly band) author, title (in Dutch, English, Japanese and Sanskrit) and impressum are printed, on the first flap a text by herman de vries in Dutch, English and German: "about this universal book, which neutralizes all contradictions / whose content is intelligible to everyone / which resolves all problems and isolates nothing of reality / at the expense or for the benefit of any aspect, remains to be said / that it represents a positive contribution to the synthesis of all" |
| dimensions: | 21 × 14.8 × 3 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | uninscribed |
| edition: | artists press bern 1980
3rd edition, 5000 [100 realised], numbered |
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| related works: | reprinted in 2012 by Zédélé Éditions , Brest in the 'Reprint Collection', curated by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix and Clive Phillpot |
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| photo/scan: | archive herman de vries |
| 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 161, 160 (catalogue number 54). |
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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, 19-20 (catalogue number 4). |