Herman De Vries - to be all ways to be Occasional Papers The the book accompanies the

The the book accompanies the artist and the curator on their walk through the building in Berlin’s Auguststraße

The Ice Plant (Los Angeles)

lampooning his classmates and teachers in fiendish montages

whose work references several 20th-century painting traditions in which the unfinished and the notion of absence play prominent parts

'intertwined the biography of a collection of netsuke figures with the biography of his family and became a surprise bestseller

Herman De Vries - to be all ways to be Occasional Papers The the book accompanies theThe relationship between man, culture and nature is increasingly becoming a subject of (artistic) research within the visual arts a theme on which Herman De Vries has been working for decades. For more than 60 years now he has been developing a highly versatile oeuvre in which art, science and philosophy are confronted with the world's, and especially nature's reality. De Vries' recent work dominates his presentation in Venice, as it does in the book