| 2000 | 'herman de vries. hunderte von erden', Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern [with Helmut Dirnaichner] |
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| 2003 | 'Seeing Red Part II. Contemporary Nonobjective Painting', Hunter College, New York [group] |
| 2022 | 'Vom Zauber der Handbewegung. Eine Geschichte der Zeichnung im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern [group] |
red! / rouge! from red earth / de la terre rouge
| catalogue number: | hdv 1998.052. |
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| date created: | 1998 |
| classification: | editions & publications |
| work type | earth rubbing series |
| medium: | hand-labeled case containing 12 sheets of paper of which 1 sheet with on the front title, artist, edition and editor in handwritten graphite pencil and on the reverse a list of the geographical origins of the earth samples + 1 sheet of Japanese paper with the word 'red' translated in 6 languages (German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Danish and Greek), followed by 10 sheets with samples of red earth pigments from Pfaffenreuth (Stiftland), Alcora - Spain, Solignac, Masif Central - France, Montaña Colourada on El Hierro and at a weird place (lomo loco) and at the Laguna Grande on La Gomera (Canary Islands) - Spain, Cap Bon - Tunesia, Wadi Rum - Jordan, Jutland - Denmark and Katsouni on Leros - Greece; gray cardboard case with title, artist and editor printed on label (black ink) |
| dimensions: | each sheet 28.4 × 22.4 cm case 31.1 × 24.3 × 1.8 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | signed and numbered on the cover page (graphite pencil) on the reverse the number corresponding with the list of origins (graphite pencil) |
| edition: | éditions lydia megert. montreuil/paris 1998
edition 17, numbered 1/17 - 17/17 |
| current repository: | [?/17] collection Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern [5/17] collection Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Munich (rep. number 4 L.sel.I 3783-1/7) [9/17] private collection ('Kunst des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts', Galerie Kornfeld Bern, 16 September 2021 (lot 730)) [15/17] collection herman and susanne de vries [16/17] collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (rep. number 2003.6.0049) |
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| related works: | in 2005 'red! / rouge! from red earth / de la terre rouge' became part of the 'library of earth colours' |
| comment: | list origins of the earth samples: 1. pfaffenreuth, stiftland, germany | 2. alcora, spain | 3. solignac, massif central, france | 4. montaña colourada, el hierro, canaries | 5. lomo loco, la gomera, canaries | 6. cap bon, tunesia | 7. wadi rum, jordania | 8. jutland, denmark | 9. laguna grande, la gomera,canaries | 10. katsouni, leros, greece |
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| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
exhibition history
published references
| exhibition catalogue | "Geformte Materie" Arbeiten von Helmut Dirnaichner - "Hunderte von Erden" Erdausreibungen von Herman de Vries aus dem Bestand der Pfalzgalerie parallel zur Landesgartenschau 2000 in Kaiserslautern (Pfalzgalerie : Kaiserslautern 2000) iamges repr. (leporello). |
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| exhibition catalogue | Seeing Red. On nonobjective paiting and colour theory (Salon Verlag : Cologne 2004) image repr. on page 66, 237. |
| 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 image repr., 199 (catalogue number 85). |
| collection catalogue | Vom Zauber der Handbewegung Eine Geschichte der Zeichnung im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Bestandskataloge der Graphischen Sammlung XVI (Deutscher Kunstverlag: Berlin 2022). |