herman de vries
being this joy experience unity, green paper-covered cardboard box, containing a book: green cloth-covered boards with embossed title (hardcover), 24 x 17.5 x 5.5 cm. (244 pp.) text with coloured plates, + a CD housed in a cloth-covered cardboard holder with embossed title, both kept together in a green with embossed lettered cloth-covered cardboard cassette, (deluxe) edition of 50 (# 1-50), with an impression of the Steigerwald in a case, signed by the artist, 2015
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In june 2014, sarah and karlyn got together with herman de vries in his steigerwald, germany. three days, three human beings, experiencing this moment in nature. visiting various places in this forest, they enjoyed: this here now.
with a nature impression of the Steigerwald (presented in a case)
an impression of several bookpages
catalogue incomplète d'exposition
complète de luang-prabang: a random sample of my visual chances, 18.1.1975
(incomplete catalog of the complete exhibition of luang-prabang...),
collection of 35 original photographs in b/w, made in luang-prabang, laos in
1975 by a random system, photographs size 10.5 x 14.4 cm., on grey cardboard
size 14.8 x 21 cm., handmade prints on agfa baryt paper, including a poster in
size a4, presented in a cardboard box.
1st edition 1976 by artists press bern, edition of 25 copies (only 8
realised)
2nd edition 1992 by lydia megert edition bern, signed and numbered
edition of 25 copies, numbered from 26/50 to 50/50
Only copies 2nd edition 1992 available
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poster
gesammelt:
botanischer garten bern, 20.10.1982 (collected: botanic garden bern, 20.10.1982),
collage of ginkgo leaves, collected and pressed by herman de vries, on white
cardboard, 36 x 60 cm., edition 29, signed and numbered, 1982
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detail
meine poesie ist die welt (my poetry is the world), publication/edition 1976, advertisement in the Anzeiger für die Stadt Bern nr.106. friday 7th may 1976, advertisement 11.5 x 11.3 cm., journal 49.5 x 33 cm., edition 33, signed and numbered, 1976
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filmnotes
1979, video – edition, 8 sequences of water, grasses, forest, fields as an
autonomous document of reality/nature, a film about movement and stillness,
about the continuity of change, shot in 1979 on super 8 by herman de vries,
transformed into video.
Videotape
in colour, silent, length 27 min., edition 30, signed and numbered, 1993
With a dried grass, insert on the front side of the box. vhs / pal / - new - with a copie in DVD enclosed
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some
early change projects - einige frühe änderungs projekte 1963 – 1967 -
this and no thing - , 7 series with a total of 34 white collages, standard
size 23 x 18 cm., each series with an alphabetical indication (A-G), the sheets
of each series are continuously numbered
the
last sheet of each series is signed and carries the number of the edition, each
series is inserted into a white folder, a double page with the title, inside
sketches of each series, on the backside the imprint, a double page with a text
in German by herman de vries, added in 1977
in a grey cardboard, box size 24.4 x 19.5 x 2.6 cm., edition 33, with a printed label, 1976
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titlepage, front-, backside
serie B
detail
serie D
detail
stream (water reproductions) 1986, waters of the dochart photographed at
killin 2nd of june 1986, series of 3 photographs in colour, printed on kodak
paper, photographs 46 x 66 cm., presented in a blue box with title inside on the
left side the note 'no beginning no end', on the right side the imprint, edition
17, signed and numbered, 1992
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