Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands)
Herman de Vries
‘Mesa’

2009
Exhibition catalogue and invitation

The Kröller-Müller Museum asked us to design the catalogue and the invitation for its exhibition of ‘Mesa’, the Herman de Vries installation the museum acquired in 2009. Inspired by the Spanish word for table, mesa, the installation consists of 43 ‘power objects’ used by Latin American shamans in their healing ceremonies. Having compiled them from 1996 to 2007, De Vries spread them out on a square sheet on the floor. In the catalogue text, he describes each object, indicating its origin and commenting on its use, but he also encourages observers to interpret the interrelationships between the various objects for themselves.

To enhance the sense of interrelatedness between the various objects of ‘Mesa’ as presented in the catalogue, we selected a slightly translucent paper. The 152-page catalogue is printed in black and white on Munken Bioset 100 GSM.

Publisher: Kröller-Müller Museum
Concept and text: Herman de Vries
Photography: Marjon Gemmeke
Printer: robstolk® (Amsterdam)

see also:
Kröller-Müller Museum: ‘The Riddle of “Double Ingres”: Van Gogh’s drawings in the Kröller-Müller Museum re-examined’
Kröller-Müller Museum: ‘Drawings and prints by Vincent van Gogh in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum’
Kröller-Müller Museum: Evert van Straaten – ‘Verlangen naar volmaaktheid’ / ‘Longing for perfection’
Kröller-Müller Museum: ‘Jan Fabre: Hortus / Corpus’