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During the Pentecost days, on 4, 5 and 6 June, Bert Kuipers Kunsthandel shows works by herman de vries from the collection of the Rijks Museum Twenthe. The exhibition space at Lonnekerspoorlaan 104 in Enschede is included in the route of the Lonneker KunstenLandschap in 2022. The exhibition Random objectivations can be seen daily during this manifestation from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. You're welcome! The work of herman de vries from the sixties is often characterized with the core concepts of the international zero and zero movement; seriality, neutrality, strict order, often expressed in random compositions of white. In 1961 he wrote in 'zero = 0' that the art in this movement is a representation of a reality that has always existed, that the works of art have no relationship with their maker and that these works are nothing but what they are; 'nothing'. Everything is unity, happens simultaneously, stationary and without contradictions. In 1975 de vries said goodbye to his old work. Nature is starting to rival his art. Random objectivations become natural relations. Why the meaningless abstraction of zero, when the best model of reality turns out to be reality itself. In nature everything happens at the same time, there are no contradictions and there is no hierarchy. Consequently, herman de vries writes his name without capital letters. In his autobiography 'source', a bulky book without capital letters, he explains how his works are created in his studio of two hundred square kilometers, which will gradually expand to half the world. With the old ordering principles of 'zero' and through philosophical and botanical investigations he makes clear the coherence of things in their endless variations. Earth is rubbed out, tree trunks are placed in a golden frame, blades of grass are clamped between glass plates, tree leaves are systematically arranged in series. Nature becomes a sanctuary. 'Ambulo ergo sum', I walk therefore I am. The eye always streams. Constituents of the ever-reclining flow into poetic artifacts; the truth of what is.