About herman de vries and his white works
From 1960 to 1966, herman de vries was one of the driving forces behind the Nul movement; around that time, de vries created a large number of completely white works of art.
Fear of the white surface? I even left paper white. Blank sheets that I labeled with my name on the back. Once, they hung the back as the front.
White is void. The feeling of emptiness is important, but emptiness is not nothing. White evokes a feeling of openness, but also of totality. White is excess.
herman de vries created several series of white papers, from 1962 to 2014.