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herman de vries 1931
Vit à Eschenau, Germany. Travaille dans Eschenau, Germany.
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herman de vries's early work includes collages of found material, such as a layer of posters torn from the wall. He uses the denominator 'collages trouvés', referring to Marcel Duchamp's 'objets trouvés'. Later in the 1950s he starts painting in white, gray and black tones. These loose, non-imaginative works can be classified as matter painting. Around 1960 de vries only worked with white paint. His early work is therefore close to Informal art from the same period.
In 1961 de vries, together with Armando and Henk Peeters of the Nul group, founded the magazine nul = 0. After two editions, however, the editors fell apart and de vries continued the magazine alone for two more issues. In the meantime, he has exchanged his job as a botanist for an appointment as a biological researcher at the Institute for Applied Biological Research in Nature (ITBON) in Arnhem. In his work he now uses chance as an important visual medium. This results in working with randomly placed blocks, dots and letters.
In 1970 de vries moves to the Bavarian village of Eschenau (near Knetzgau) and from this time on nature and Eastern ways of thinking form important elements in his work. Change and temporal arrangements such as those prevailing in nature are expressed, for example, in works with fallen tree leaves or in an account of an investigation of plants found in a confined area of pasture.
Since the 1980s, the emphasis in his work has been on the disturbed relationship between man and nature, as a result of which, according to de vries, an important source of knowledge is in danger of being lost. In books he documents a large collection of herbs and crops, in works on paper he uses different types of soil as pigment and he also exhibits grasses, fragrant rose petals and plants with a hallucinatory effect. In addition to a large number of artist's books, de vries also makes photos, films and text works. Particular attention was paid to this work during the Venice Biennale in 2015, when herman was presented with the solo exhibition 'to be all ways to be' in the Dutch pavilion, curated by Colin Huizing and Cees de Boer.
In 1961 de vries, together with Armando and Henk Peeters of the Nul group, founded the magazine nul = 0. After two editions, however, the editors fell apart and de vries continued the magazine alone for two more issues. In the meantime, he has exchanged his job as a botanist for an appointment as a biological researcher at the Institute for Applied Biological Research in Nature (ITBON) in Arnhem. In his work he now uses chance as an important visual medium. This results in working with randomly placed blocks, dots and letters.
In 1970 de vries moves to the Bavarian village of Eschenau (near Knetzgau) and from this time on nature and Eastern ways of thinking form important elements in his work. Change and temporal arrangements such as those prevailing in nature are expressed, for example, in works with fallen tree leaves or in an account of an investigation of plants found in a confined area of pasture.
Since the 1980s, the emphasis in his work has been on the disturbed relationship between man and nature, as a result of which, according to de vries, an important source of knowledge is in danger of being lost. In books he documents a large collection of herbs and crops, in works on paper he uses different types of soil as pigment and he also exhibits grasses, fragrant rose petals and plants with a hallucinatory effect. In addition to a large number of artist's books, de vries also makes photos, films and text works. Particular attention was paid to this work during the Venice Biennale in 2015, when herman was presented with the solo exhibition 'to be all ways to be' in the Dutch pavilion, curated by Colin Huizing and Cees de Boer.
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herman de vries - chance & change
17 June 2017 - 4 February 2018 - MUSAC León hall 2
Curator: Kristine Guzman
Coordination: Raquel Álvarez
chance & change is herman de vries' first solo exhibition in Spain. This retrospective spans an extensive period of more than 50 years and shows both early 'informal' works as well as local works created especially for this exhibition in which nature is presented as an independent artwork.
https://musac.es/#exposiciones/expo/?id=6311
Camera and direction: Vince de Vries
Locations: Eschenau (Germany), León (Spain), Gavdos (Greece), Digne-Les-Bains (France), Camperduin (The Netherlands), Bogor (Indonesia)
Audio recording of herman's breath: Lutz Oldemeier / Linon
expositions
Dans la collection du musée:
Kröller-Müller Museum
Groninger Museum
Bonnefantenmuseum
Museum van Bommel van Dam
Van Abbemuseum
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Museum Voorlinden
Rijksmuseum
CODA
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
De Domijnen
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
Museum Helmond
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centraal Museum Utrecht
M HKA Antwerpen
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Museum de Paviljoens, Almere
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum of Modern Art
Muzeum Sztuki
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dans la collection corporative:
AkzoNobel
Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (BE)
ABN AMRO Art Collection
Daimler Art Collection, UK
Rijksoverheid
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Awards & Prizes:
2019 Gerhard-Altenbourg-Preis
1998 Oeuvre Award presented by the Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture
2019 Gerhard-Altenbourg-Preis
1998 Oeuvre Award presented by the Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture
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1949-1951 gardening school, Hoorn
1951-1952 agricultural work in France
1952-1956 Institute for Research in Plant Diseases, Wageningen
levensgebeurtenissen & tentoonstellingen | life events & exhibitions (selected)
1953 "beginning of my life as an artist"
informal drawings and monochrome paintings
1956 'what is rubbish?'
1956-1962 informal collages [more information]
1959-1963 white paintings [more information]
1960 white is superabundance [= wit is overdaad]
white objects
1961-1964 [revue] nul = 0
1961-1968 Institute for Applied Biological Research in Nature, Arnhem
1962 random objectivations [more information]
white, other editions and reprints in 1967, 1980 and 2012
the music of sound
'nul', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1964 revue integration
1965 first experiments with language
'there are no contradictions'
1967 travels to Eastern Europe and Russia
1968 'argumentstellen'
1969 travels to Algeria, Sahara, Tunisia and Turkey
first psychedelic experiences
'die lust zur zerstörung ist zugleich eine schaffende lust'
'what is rational?'
1970 travels to Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India and the Seychelles
moved to Eschenau
the real works
1971 travels to Southern India and Ceylon
susanne
1972 'my poetry is the world'
chance and change [more information]
experiments with film and photography
1973 travels to Morocco, Rio de Oro, Mauretania and Senegal
'a random sample of the seeings of my beings'
chance fields
1974 travels to Nepal, India, Thailand and Laos
eschenau summer & temporary travelling press publications
'to be all ways to be'
1975 poésie actuelle
'here & everywhere'
'exposition complète de luang-prabang'
the poet in his poetry
1976 travels to India
'this & no thing'
'documents of a stream'
'le jardin sans jardinier'
'true philosophy is immediate actual'
1977 the dust of some roads & a leaf from a tree
no-name or no name
1978 travels to Sikkim
'the earth museum'
1979 film notes
16 dm²
das grosse rasenstück [more information]
1980 'werke 1954-1980', Groninger Museum
'gestern nicht kunst angefangen'
'all'
1981 long stay in Los Acevinos, La Gomera
1982 les très riches heures de herman de vries
'here'
travels to Morocco
1982 to present natural relations [more information]
1983 to present from earth [more information]
1984 mind moving
film and publication 'belladonna'
'die marokkanische sammlung'
travels to Senegal
1985 scottish diary, first journal [more information]
1986 to present the meadow/die wiese
1989 das verschlossene paradies
'erfahrungsfelder'
human life
1991-1995 integration. journal for mind-moving plants and culture
le témoin
1992 'terre, vie et poésie', Mouans-Sartoux
'the real works', Edinburgh
'remember gustav theodor fechner'
1993 botanical works
sanctuary Stuttgart
1995 'physics & metaphysics are one'
1996 'this'
1996-2007 mesa
1997 sanctuary Münster
1997-1998 Watergoed, Weerribben (Overijssel)
1998 to present tuindorpcollecties tilburg [start slideshow]
1999 'ambulo ergo sum'
Digne-les-Bains
1999 sanctuary zeewolde [start slideshow]
1999-2003 bois sacré and sanctuaire de roche rousse, Digne-les-Bains
1999 to present 'traces' in Digne-les-Bains [start slideshow]
2001 'philosophische bemerkungen'
2002 'wynfrith me caesit - herman me recreavit', Düsseldorf
'different & identic', Lausanne
2003-2005 'sacred space', created for the State of Sabotage territory in Baldrockistan (Australia) [start slideshow]
2006 'spuren' in the Steigerwald [start slideshow]
2007-2010 steigerwald cosmology
2008 'trees museum', The Hague [start slideshow]
holy days
veritas existentiae
2009 'unity', Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo
'all this here', Schloss Moyland and Kunsthalle Schweinfurt (2010)
2010 'es ist da', Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin
2011 'i am', Kunstvereniging Diepenheim
'searching for the source'
2012 to present three gardens for Diepenheim [start slideshow]
2013 im winter auf dem grossen knetzberg • ein journal
2014 'all' and 'no thing', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and Ketelfactory, Schiedam
the water lilies, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim [start slideshow]
from the laguna of venice - a journal -
'ZERO. Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-1960s', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
'ZERO. Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre, Gropius Bau, Berlin
2015 'ZERO. Let us Explore the Stars', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
herman de vries represented with 'to be all ways to be' The Netherlands at the Biennale Arte 2015, Venice
sanctuary natura mater, Lazaretto Vecchio, Venice
'basic values', Erasmus Huis, Jakarta. The exhibition travelled to Amsterdam and Sittard
2016 'sculptures trouvés', Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg
2016-2017 'le sommet des philosophes', project as part of the 'traces project' around Digne-les-Bains (Villard des Dourbes)
2017 sanctuary for HEART, Herning/DK
'chance & change', MUSAC, Léon (SP)
2018 'ultimate freedom', BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2019 herman de vries was awarded the Gerhard Altenbourg Price 2019
'all all all', BorzoGallery at PAN, Amsterdam
'herman de vries. voor jullie voeten', Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar
'herman de vries – all all all : werke 1957–2019', Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg
2020 'herman de vries. how green is the grass?', Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
2021 'herman de vries. 90', L.A.C. (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), Sigean
'herman de vries. 90', BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
1951-1952 agricultural work in France
1952-1956 Institute for Research in Plant Diseases, Wageningen
levensgebeurtenissen & tentoonstellingen | life events & exhibitions (selected)
1953 "beginning of my life as an artist"
informal drawings and monochrome paintings
1956 'what is rubbish?'
1956-1962 informal collages [more information]
1959-1963 white paintings [more information]
1960 white is superabundance [= wit is overdaad]
white objects
1961-1964 [revue] nul = 0
1961-1968 Institute for Applied Biological Research in Nature, Arnhem
1962 random objectivations [more information]
white, other editions and reprints in 1967, 1980 and 2012
the music of sound
'nul', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1964 revue integration
1965 first experiments with language
'there are no contradictions'
1967 travels to Eastern Europe and Russia
1968 'argumentstellen'
1969 travels to Algeria, Sahara, Tunisia and Turkey
first psychedelic experiences
'die lust zur zerstörung ist zugleich eine schaffende lust'
'what is rational?'
1970 travels to Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India and the Seychelles
moved to Eschenau
the real works
1971 travels to Southern India and Ceylon
susanne
1972 'my poetry is the world'
chance and change [more information]
experiments with film and photography
1973 travels to Morocco, Rio de Oro, Mauretania and Senegal
'a random sample of the seeings of my beings'
chance fields
1974 travels to Nepal, India, Thailand and Laos
eschenau summer & temporary travelling press publications
'to be all ways to be'
1975 poésie actuelle
'here & everywhere'
'exposition complète de luang-prabang'
the poet in his poetry
1976 travels to India
'this & no thing'
'documents of a stream'
'le jardin sans jardinier'
'true philosophy is immediate actual'
1977 the dust of some roads & a leaf from a tree
no-name or no name
1978 travels to Sikkim
'the earth museum'
1979 film notes
16 dm²
das grosse rasenstück [more information]
1980 'werke 1954-1980', Groninger Museum
'gestern nicht kunst angefangen'
'all'
1981 long stay in Los Acevinos, La Gomera
1982 les très riches heures de herman de vries
'here'
travels to Morocco
1982 to present natural relations [more information]
1983 to present from earth [more information]
1984 mind moving
film and publication 'belladonna'
'die marokkanische sammlung'
travels to Senegal
1985 scottish diary, first journal [more information]
1986 to present the meadow/die wiese
1989 das verschlossene paradies
'erfahrungsfelder'
human life
1991-1995 integration. journal for mind-moving plants and culture
le témoin
1992 'terre, vie et poésie', Mouans-Sartoux
'the real works', Edinburgh
'remember gustav theodor fechner'
1993 botanical works
sanctuary Stuttgart
1995 'physics & metaphysics are one'
1996 'this'
1996-2007 mesa
1997 sanctuary Münster
1997-1998 Watergoed, Weerribben (Overijssel)
1998 to present tuindorpcollecties tilburg [start slideshow]
1999 'ambulo ergo sum'
Digne-les-Bains
1999 sanctuary zeewolde [start slideshow]
1999-2003 bois sacré and sanctuaire de roche rousse, Digne-les-Bains
1999 to present 'traces' in Digne-les-Bains [start slideshow]
2001 'philosophische bemerkungen'
2002 'wynfrith me caesit - herman me recreavit', Düsseldorf
'different & identic', Lausanne
2003-2005 'sacred space', created for the State of Sabotage territory in Baldrockistan (Australia) [start slideshow]
2006 'spuren' in the Steigerwald [start slideshow]
2007-2010 steigerwald cosmology
2008 'trees museum', The Hague [start slideshow]
holy days
veritas existentiae
2009 'unity', Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo
'all this here', Schloss Moyland and Kunsthalle Schweinfurt (2010)
2010 'es ist da', Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin
2011 'i am', Kunstvereniging Diepenheim
'searching for the source'
2012 to present three gardens for Diepenheim [start slideshow]
2013 im winter auf dem grossen knetzberg • ein journal
2014 'all' and 'no thing', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and Ketelfactory, Schiedam
the water lilies, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim [start slideshow]
from the laguna of venice - a journal -
'ZERO. Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-1960s', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
'ZERO. Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre, Gropius Bau, Berlin
2015 'ZERO. Let us Explore the Stars', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
herman de vries represented with 'to be all ways to be' The Netherlands at the Biennale Arte 2015, Venice
sanctuary natura mater, Lazaretto Vecchio, Venice
'basic values', Erasmus Huis, Jakarta. The exhibition travelled to Amsterdam and Sittard
2016 'sculptures trouvés', Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg
2016-2017 'le sommet des philosophes', project as part of the 'traces project' around Digne-les-Bains (Villard des Dourbes)
2017 sanctuary for HEART, Herning/DK
'chance & change', MUSAC, Léon (SP)
2018 'ultimate freedom', BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2019 herman de vries was awarded the Gerhard Altenbourg Price 2019
'all all all', BorzoGallery at PAN, Amsterdam
'herman de vries. voor jullie voeten', Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar
'herman de vries – all all all : werke 1957–2019', Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg
2020 'herman de vries. how green is the grass?', Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
2021 'herman de vries. 90', L.A.C. (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), Sigean
'herman de vries. 90', BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
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