Herman De Vries - to be all ways to be Occasional Papers In his latest collages

In his latest collages

these still moments of photography invite both a closer inspection of the particular scenes within

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

lampooning his classmates and teachers in fiendish montages

Herman De Vries - to be all ways to be Occasional Papers In his latest collagesThe 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