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Dear Friends of herman de vries,
For some time I concentrated all information by and about herman de vries on the website www.hermandevries.org. I had to deal with herman80.nl as well and it proved not te be efficient to have a newsletter as well.
In March 2012 I decided to resume newsletter activities, but not on blogger but as a blog close to the website: blog.hermandevries.org.

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Wageningen : homogeneous and heterogeneous

July 11, herman de vries celebrated his 80^th birthday. That occasion is reason for museums, art galleries and art spaces in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe to pay special attention to this leading Dutch artist. And so does Galerie Wit in Wageningen with a solo exhibition titled ‘homogeneous and heterogeneous’ (August 21 to September 11).

Galerie Wit shows works from his Zero period in contrast with more recent work. On view will be among others ‘random shapes’, approximately 6 meters long row of 8 white rectangles of arbitrary size, only previously exhibited at Riekje Swart in 1972. From the same period a fine white relief of 1 x 1 m. The newer work includes four major rubbings from La Gomera, and the plant works, 'after the harvest' (combine waste, 73 x 102 cm) and an equally large piece of woodland (litter layer viewed from above), plus various smaller works.

During the exhibition the short documentary ‘herman de vries’ from the series Dutch Masters in the 21st Century, by Barbara Makkinga and produced by Interakt will be shown. The work herman de vries made during the recording of the film is also included in the exhibition.

The exhibition will be opened on August 21 at 15 pm by Bianca Stigter. In her book Per ongeluk expres a chapter is devoted to herman de vries. herman de vries will be present during the finissage, September 11 at 15.00.


Images:
above: random shapes, "1972, wood, white paint, variable size, as pictured (98 x 590 x 3 cm
middle: La Gomera, 2000 (4 times 140 x 100 cm)

left: ‘curves (molinea cearulea)’, 2010 (73 x 102 cm)

summer press publication 63

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herman de vries with marion reissner, merik de vries

eschenau : the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publications

herman de vries publisher

2011

eschenau summer press publication 63

Camera: marion reißner

Film editing: merik de vries

Printed by Oeckler, Haßfurt/Main

108 copies, numbered.

White cover, containing 1 DVD, colour

handwriting verso: "& serendipity"

16.8 × 12.7 cm

Marseille : Arts Psychoactifs

Arts Psychoactifs
Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine, Marseille
23 June to 27 August 2011
Press Release

Group Exhibition, curated by Antoine Perpère
Participating artists: Aurèle, Barrus, Briand, Berdaguer-Pejus, Charbonnier, herman de vries, Hains, Limone, Menini, Foucault, Perpère, Rochette-Brevet, Shrigley, Wise...

Venice : Personal Structures

The exhibition PERSONAL STRUCTURES is part of an international art project. It was initiated in 2002 by the Dutch artist Rene Rietmeyer, who noticed that even in the most distant corners of the world, there are artists working with Time - Space and Existence, thereby expressing themselves in a very personal way. This observation led to the idea of bringing several of these artists together in publications, exhibitions and symposia.

Palazzo Bembo will be home of the exhibition PERSONAL STRUCTURES. The Palazzo is located in front of the Rialto Bridge, facing the Grand Canal.
The exhibition can be visited at the 900 m2 second floor of Palazzo Bembo, 4 June until 27 November 2011.

other info : www.venice-exhibitions.org/.

Publication : het is - es ist

het is = es ist

This publication is volume 6 in a series of bibliophile editions. In these editions double talents, artists with visual as well as literary works, are proposed. This publication is edited by herman de vries and Cees de Boer, text and photography by herman de vries. The book is published in an edition of 250 by Dimter 73 in Hengelo and designed by Sepp Bader, Fleringen.

The photographs are taken in an afternoon in the northern Steigerwald, Bavaria.

Dutch Masters in the 21st century

On May 18, the project Dutch Masters in the 21st century was presented. It is a unique collaboration between several local broadcasters and art institutes. The project will now be continued as an exhibition at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam until June 26th.

Dutch Masters [Hollandse Meesters] is composed of filmed portraits of visual artists in their work place. The aim of the project is to produce an extensive serie in which a whole generation of artist is represented. One of the first artists to be filmed was herman de vries (by Barbara Makkinga).

Artists: Charlotte Schleiffert, Hans Aarsman, Philip Akkerman, Erik van Lieshout, Teun Hocks, Iris van Dongen, herman de vries, Bertien van Manen, Koos Breukel, Berend Strik, Natasja Kensmil, Job Koelewijn, Jan Dibbets, Marc Bijl, Koen Vermeule, Jan van Munster, David Bade, Joep van Lieshout en Mark Manders

Films made by (among others): Pieter Verhoeff, Eddy Terstall, Barbara Makkinga, Robert Oey and Michiel van Nieuwkerk.

The films will be shown during exhibitions, on television (RTV Noord-Holland) and on the internet. herman de vries was shown at the start of the presentation. He will be on RTV Noord-Holland on Tuesday June 21, 7.35 pm (8.35, 9.35 etc.) and I hope to have the film online in due time.

More links:
Hollandse Meesters in de 21ste eeuw
Interakt
Mediafonds

[photo by Michiel van Nieuwkerk]