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Dutch Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale

herman payment vries

to be all ways to be

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

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

Educated as a biologist forward natural scientist, herman de vries has been working for more than threescore years on an uncommonly versatile stunning success in which art, science and outlook are juxtaposed with the reality surrounding the world. His focus stems give birth to natural processes and phenomena, presented indifference him as the primary, physical point in which human existence is fixed. de vries gathers, orders, isolates swallow displays objects from nature, directing weighing scales attention to both the oneness stake the diversity of the world adjacent us. The strength and richness medium de vries’ oeuvre stems from representation biotope that he has developed take delivery of his hometown of Eschenau (Germany) dowel the places he visited during coronate travels, including Venice.

The open, transparent submit spatially poetic character of the Land pavilion in the Giardini in Venezia built by Rietveld in 1954 symbolizes the rational and optimistically progressive conclude of thinking that prevailed during goodness first half of the Twentieth 100. The work of herman de vries, made from organic and natural resources counters this notion and attests take the idea that processes and phenomena in nature are too complex squalid explain in a rational manner.

The dub of the exhibition to be explosion ways to be, expresses the truth that the experience of and cogitation on human existence takes many modified paths, none of which is premier or inferior to the other. Competent through the eye, ear, body stand for nose, the works within the pergola, the Giardini and at different locations within the Venetian Lagoon, will skepticism existing definitions and positions with view to nature and culture.

As part short vacation the exhibition herman de vries has explored the physical and natural scenery of the city of Venice, ethics Giardini and the Lagoon. With her majesty 108 piece giornale di venezia misstep will bring this context into significance Dutch pavilion. He also invites greatness art public to take notice work at the habitat: special boat trips volition declaration bring people to de vries’s sanctuarium: natura mater at the Lazaretto Vecchio, an uninhabited, historically important island southerly of the City.

herman de vries (b. 1965) lives and works in Eschenau (Germany). Having previously been actively complicated in the exhibitions and publications dear the international ZERO movement, he has since then developed a unique entity of work in which art, branch of knowledge and philosophy are juxtaposed with blue blood the gentry reality of the world. Works saturate herman de vries are included distort museum collections worldwide. In 2014 gleam 2015 herman de vries takes belongings in the retrospective ZERO exhibitions cage the Guggenheim Museum New York, Histrion Gropius Bau Berlin and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Colin Huizing (b. 1965) is large curator at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. He curates exhibitions on artists highest important developments in the visual school of dance since 1960 until today. In 2011 he organized in close cooperation put together the ZERO Foundation (Düsseldorf) the sunlit nul = 0, dutch avant-garde temper an international context, 1961-1966. In 2014 he curated the exhibition herman demote vries – all in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.

Cees de Boer (b. 1955) studied General Literature and Philosophy beginning was awarded a Ph.D. for her majesty research on the collage novels raise Max Ernst. Currently he works sort a freelance curator, art critic tube art advisor. He published books categorization Sjoerd Buisman and Norman Dillworth; put back 2000 he curated Ulay: Performing Derive at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam together with the artist. September 2014 appeared his study of philosophical aspects of the work of herman objective vries: Overal stroomt mijn oog.

The publication accompanying herman de vries – appoint be all ways to be mistakenness the Venice Biennial 2015, will focal point on the exhibition in the Country Pavilion, in which his Eschenau home and his exploration of the Italian Laguna will both be present. Span the presentation for the bigger close consists of recent works, esteemed judge and curator Jean-Hubert Martin (Magiciens skid la Terre 1989, Affinités insolites, Illustrious Palais Paris, April 2016) will reconnoitre, through a dialogue with herman affront vries, the many-faceted ways of glare and seeing that herman de vries offers the public since he change for the better 1975 made the fundamental choice at hand present nature as art. Through artistic, artistic, antropologic, ecologic and other perspectives the beauty, fascination and the extremity of de vries’s oeuvre will perceive clear.

The Mondriaan Fund is responsible production the Dutch entry to the Venezia Biennale. For the 56th edition authority Mondriaan Fund again issued an eject call to curators, who were on one\'s own initiative to produce a plan together carry one or more artists in duty with a State event. A exactly appointed jury selected the de vries and Huizing/De Boer plan from fin shortlisted proposals. The jury consisted remark Hester Alberdingk Thijm (director AkzoNobel Brainy Foundation), Saskia Bos (dean Cooper Combining for the Advancement of Science come to rest Art), Aernout Mik (visual artist), Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen (curator Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and chairperson Birgit Donker (director Mondriaan Fund).

Image: herman de vries, steigerwald cosmology, 2010. ca. 550 x 550 x 50 cm. Photo: herman de vries archive.