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

In his latest collages

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

Paris (16 October 2015 – 17 January 2016)

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