| 1989 | 'herman de vries. natural relations – eine skizze', Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen |
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| 1990 | 'herman de vries a phantom & a dream', Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart |
| 2015 | 'herman de vries. to be all ways to be', Biennale Arte 2015, Dutch Pavilion, Venice |
flora incorporata
| catalogue number: | hdv 1987.081.1 |
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| date created: | 1988 |
| classification: | editions & publications |
| work type: | artist's publication |
| medium: | to the title on the title page [5] 'flora incorporata' is added 'ich bin was ich bin' and followed by a page [7] with the sankrit 'oum!' and 461 names of the plants that herman de vries took up until the winter of 1987, and to which he recalled in this order; the name of the plants is in many languages; the pages 468-476 are empty. The book is dedicated to Albert Hoffmann (1906-2008) and has series title 'natural relations II' |
| dimensions: | 18 × 13 × 3.2 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | numbered and signed below the imprint |
| edition: | ottenhausen verlag, [piesport] 1988 ISBN 3-922760-25-2; gesamtherstellung in der abtei münsterschwarzach
edition 300, numbered 1/300 - 300/300 special edition 15, numbered I/XV-XV/XV; the special edition contains dried plants, seeds in bags, colour photographs and handwritten additions on the emty pages. ) |
| current repository: | [III/XV] private collection, Amsterdam [VII/XV] private collection, The Hague [*/300] collection Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| photo/scan: | studio herman de vries/Joana Schwender |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
exhibition history
published references
| exhibition catalogue | herman de vries. meine poesie ist die welt - aus der heimat/von den pflanzen (Städtische Sammlungen Schweinfurt : Schweinfurt etc. 1993) text repr. on page 20. |
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| 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., 195-196 (catalogue number 73a-b). |
| exhibition catalogue | herman de vries. to be all ways to be (Valiz/Mondriaan Fund : Amsterdam 2015) image repr. on page 120-121, 117-121. |