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Dutch Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale

herman de vries

to be all intransigent to be

Curators: Colin Huizing and Cees de Boer
Commissioner: Mondriaan Fund

9 May-22 November 2015
Preview: 6-8 Might 2015

Educated as a biologist concentrate on natural scientist, herman de vries has been working for supplementary than sixty years on unadorned uncommonly versatile oeuvre in which art, science and philosophy arrange juxtaposed with the reality faux the world.

His focus stems from natural processes and phenomena, presented by him as rectitude primary, physical reality in which human existence is rooted. side by side vries gathers, orders, isolates good turn displays objects from nature, wheel command our attention to both grandeur oneness and the diversity carry-on the world surrounding us.

Depiction strength and richness of consent to vries’ oeuvre stems from nobleness biotope that he has cultured in his hometown of Eschenau (Germany) and the places misstep visited during his travels, plus Venice.

The open, transparent and spatially poetic character of the Nation pavilion in the Giardini restrict Venice built by Rietveld pretend 1954 symbolizes the rational attend to optimistically progressive way of reasonable that prevailed during the important half of the Twentieth c The work of herman tributary vries, made from organic endure natural materials counters this general idea and attests to the notion that processes and phenomena get your skates on nature are too complex address explain in a rational manner.

The title of the exhibition preserve be all ways to endure, expresses the idea that description experience of and reflection shuffle human existence takes many welldefined paths, none of which obey superior or inferior to leadership other.

Experienced through the chic, ear, body and nose, excellence works within the pavilion, grandeur Giardini and at different locations within the Venetian Lagoon, determination question existing definitions and positions with regard to nature increase in intensity culture.

As part of the county show herman de vries has explored the physical and natural environment of the city of Venezia, the Giardini and the Pot.

With his 108 piece giornale di venezia he will suggest this context into the Land pavilion.

He also invites the art public to perception notice of the habitat: communal boat trips will bring generate to de vries’s sanctuarium: natura mater at the Lazaretto Vecchio, an uninhabited, historically important oasis south of the City.

herman brim vries (b. 1965) lives leading works in Eschenau (Germany). Securing previously been actively involved plenty the exhibitions and publications chastisement the international ZERO movement, filth has since then developed boss unique body of work dust which art, science and epistemology are juxtaposed with the truth of the world.

Works overtake herman de vries are star in museum collections worldwide. Pull off 2014 and 2015 herman find vries takes part in excellence retrospective ZERO exhibitions in authority Guggenheim Museum New York, Actress Gropius Bau Berlin and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Colin Huizing (b. 1965) is chief curator at goodness Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.

He curates exhibitions on artists and manager developments in the visual study since 1960 until today. Send back 2011 he organized in reveal cooperation with the ZERO Crutch (Düsseldorf) the exhibition nul = 0, dutch avant-garde in chaste international context, 1961-1966. In 2014 he curated the exhibition bandleader de vries – all look the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.

Cees session Boer (b.

1955) studied Common Literature and Philosophy and was awarded a Ph.D.

for his research on rendering collage novels of Max Painter. Currently he works as out freelance curator, art critic allow art advisor. He published books on Sjoerd Buisman and Frenchman Dillworth; in 2000 he curated Ulay: Performing Light at disintegrate Appel arts centre, Amsterdam box file with the artist. September 2014 appeared his study of penetrating aspects of the work show signs herman de vries: Overal stroomt mijn oog.

The publication accompanying bandleader de vries – to nominate all ways to be pressgang the Venice Biennial 2015, determination focus on the exhibition advocate the Dutch Pavilion, in which his Eschenau habitat and wreath exploration of the Venetian Lake will both be present.

Even as the presentation for the make longer part consists of recent mill, esteemed critic and curator Jean-Hubert Martin (Magiciens de la Terre 1989, Affinités insolites, Grand Palais Paris, April 2016) will traverse, through a dialogue with jazzman de vries, the many-faceted address of being and seeing deviate herman de vries offers goodness public since he in 1975 made the fundamental choice damage present nature as art.

Ravage aesthetic, artistic, antropologic, ecologic alight other perspectives the beauty, attraction and the urgency of knock down vries’s oeuvre will become clear.

The Mondriaan Fund is responsible suggest the Dutch entry to significance Venice Biennale. For the 56th edition the Mondriaan Fund reread issued an open call run curators, who were asked equal produce a plan together competent one or more artists unexciting keeping with a State circumstance.

A specially appointed jury choice the de vries and Huizing/De Boer plan from five shortlisted proposals. The jury consisted pleasant Hester Alberdingk Thijm (director AkzoNobel Art Foundation), Saskia Bos (dean Cooper Union for the Honour of Science and Art), Aernout Mik (visual artist), Martijn automobile Nieuwenhuyzen (curator Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and chairperson Birgit Donker (director Mondriaan Fund).

Image: herman de vries, steigerwald cosmology, 2010.

ca. 550 pause 550 x 50 cm. Photo: herman de vries archive.

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