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1982-00-00-0700

chance & change processes & situations, morocco 1973

catalogue number: hdv 1982.081.3
date created: 1973/1982
classification: editions & publications
work type: photograph series
medium: 5 leporello's presenting alltogether 16 original photos in colour (18 × 27 cm); handmade prints mounted on grey linen, in a grey cardboard box, handlabeled by the artist
dimensions: box 19.4 × 29.1 × 1.6 cm
signature and inscriptions: titled 'chance & change processes & situations, morocco 1973', signed and impressum on the cover page (graphite pencil)
numbered and annotated on the reverse of each leporello (graphite pencil):
I. 28 3 1973, ourika
II. 28 3 1973 ourika / 30 seconds intervals.
III. 11 4 1973, sidi moussa d'aglou, / between the waves.
IV. 11-4 1973, sidi moussa d'aglou. / 10 seconds intervals.
V. 14-4 1973, el douar mirleft / at random times : 14.56 h & 16.32 h
edition: edition lydia megert bern 1982
edition 17, numbered 1/17 - 17/17 + 2 a.p.
current repository: [10/17] private collection, Amsterdam
[11/17] collection Centre national des arts plastiques
[13/17] collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
[14/17] collection Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
[16/17] Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen/ Weserburg, Bremen (on loan from BFA, Tilburg 2018)
current repository number: [11/17] FNAC 03-83
[13/17] 1998.1.0017/A39335
[14/17] V03001
collecting history:
related works: the original photographs:
  1. v73-28A wasserbilder (1973)
  2. v73-33 waves II (1973)
  3. v73-34 waves III - between de waves (1973)
  4. v73-42 el donar mirleft at random times (1973)
  5. v73-65 chance and change situations - valley + clouds (1973)
comment:
photo/scan: courtesy Lydia Megert Editions, Bern
rights & reproduction: herman de vries
exhibition history
1994 'herman de vries. aus der wirklichkeit', Galerie Kornfeld, Zürich
2018 'herman de vries. Taken from Nature: Artists Books, Editions, and Works on Paper. Works from the Collection of the Brokken Zijp Foundation of Art', Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen in der Weserburg/Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
published references
catalogue raisonné herman de vries. les livres et les publications : catalogue raisonné / textes de herman de vries, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Didier Mathieu (Centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) no images repr., 175 (catalogue number 59).
collection catalogue Caldic Collection. Artists' books / Suzanne Swarts (Caldic Collectie : Rotterdam 2007) image repr. on pages 320-321.
collection catalogue José Brokken-Zijp und Hans Brokken, herman de vries - die Wirklichkeit im Bild. Künstlerbücher 1960-1985 (Sammlung Brokken Zijp Foundation of Art/Museum van Bommel van Dam : Venlo 2015) images repr. on pages 140, 139-141.