herman de vries art catalogue

catalogue number:	hdv 2014.043.
date created:	2014-2017
classification:	the real works: assemblages & collages
work type:	pressed plants & seeds
medium:	vegetation (substrate), collected mainly around Venice [see 'extended description'], pressed between glass and board
dimensions:	19 + 1 (cover page) parts, each part framed 31 × 22.3 × 3.8 cm
signature and inscriptions:	titled 'substrata', signed (on both sides) and dated '2014-2017' on the cover page (graphite pencil) on each part titled on the reverse (graphite pencil) + titled and dated on a piece of paper on some of the parts (ink) and marked 'fotografiert von Joana Schwender [f.j.s.] (black ink)
edition:

current repository:	collection herman and susanne de vries
current repository number:
collecting history:
related works:
comment:
photo/scan:	studio herman de vries/Julia Henfling
rights & reproduction:	herman de vries

extended description

the series 'substrata' includes (in chronological order):

1. substrata - coll.: entre entrages - les portes, réserve national géologique de haute provence (buxus), 18.4.'14

2. substrata - coll.: isola carbonera, laguna di venezia, 30.9.'14

3. substrata - coll.: isola giacomo in paluda, laguna venetia, n.d. [2014]

4. substrata - coll.: isola poveglia, laguna venetia, 3.10.'14

5. substrata - coll.: isola san andrea, laguna di venezia, 4.10.'14

6. substrata - coll.: isola san andrea, laguna di venezia, 4.10.'14

7. substrata - coll.: lazaretto vecchio, laguna venezia, 5.10.'14

8. substrata - coll.: isola pulvere, laguna di venezia, 5.10.'14

9. substrata - coll.: giardini, venetia, 6.10.'14

10. substrata - coll.: 2015

11. substrata - coll.: korfos, gavdos GR, 12.4.2016

12. su[b]strata - coll.: sarakiniko, gavdos GR, 2016 / mastix / coll.: hartmut geerken

13. substrata - coll.: chroussa, syros, aug 2017 / by cees de boer & achille schiavo campo (from below a thorned shrub)

14. substrata - coll.: steinberg 2017

15. substrata - coll.: steinberg 2017

16. substrata - (buche) mittelberg 2017

17. substrata - verla, goa, n.d.

18. substrata - brandwald, SZ, CH, n.d.

19. substrata - graben b. kaisereiche, n.d.

exhibition history

2015	'herman de vries. venice and beyond', Art Affairs, Amsterdam [the works from 2014, collected in Venice]

published references