| 1993 | 'herman de vries. botanische werke und andere neue arbeiten', Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart |
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| 1994 | 'herman de vries. texts', Art Affairs, Amsterdam |
| 1998 | 'herman de vries. aus der wirklichkeit', Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm |
| 1998 | 'herman de vries - reizen 1970-1998. documents of a stream', Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede |
| 1998 | 'herman de vries. moments in a stream (works 1957-1998)' Art Affairs, Amsterdam |
| 2000 | 'Zeegezichten', Prins Hendrik Stichting, tehuis voor oud-Zeevarenden, Egmond aan Zee [group] |
| 2001 | 'words and landscape', Art Affairs, Amsterdam [group] |
| 2019 | 'herman de vries. voor jullie voeten', Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Alkmaar |
ocean of streams
| catalogue number: | hdv 1992.011.1A |
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| date created: | 1992 |
| classification: | works on paper |
| work type: | word drawing |
| medium: | coloured pencil on paper |
| dimensions: | 172 × 292 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | [] |
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| current repository: | collection Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede |
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| current repository number: | 4278 |
| collecting history: | acquired through Art Affairs, Amsterdam |
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| comment: | in this work thousands of names of rivers and watercourses have been written down in blue pencil, and together they form an 'ocean of streams'. These names provide information about the history of a region. Over time they were used unthinkingly and they lost their meaning. The retention or recovery of knowledge of the world plays a role in many of de vries’s works. |
| photo/scan: | courtesy text Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Alkmaar |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries/Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede |
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) no image repr., 82. |
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| exhibition catalogue | herman de vries. aus der wirklichkeit (Stadt Ulm : Ulm 1998) image repr. on page 74. |