For Festival Tweetakt, Herman Lamers has arranged part of the city square De Neude with more artworks he has made. Around the Eyes Wide Open Church stands his collection of figurines of naked, chubby little children in fighting poses. They are cupid figures that you often encounter in old religious paintings. The bird, the hand and the head, large sculptures made of open metal wire by Lamers, are also symbols that are widely used in the church. By placing these sculptures together on De Neude, a square where you can still feel that it already existed in the Middle Ages, he brings history and the present day together. In this way, ‘a new situation emerges, which also has something theatrical about it’.

The Rotterdam‑based artist Herman Lamers always wonders why the things and the animals are the way they are, and whether it could be different. Many of his sculptures and installations are made for public space. With a cheerful absurdity, they respond to the place where they are situated, they invite to look in a new way. What Lamers creates fits Festival Tweetakt so well that this year he has a major presence in the exhibited artworks. At the youth exhibition at Fort Ruigenhoek, many more of his artworks can be seen. And just around the cornerof de Neude, on the façade of Theater Kikker on the Ganzenmarkt, you can see a neon work by Lamers: an elephant balancing on a slack rope.

After his studies at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, Herman Lamers became a versatile artist. He is a sculptor, installation artist, photographer and draughtsman, and works with all kinds of materials: bronze, aluminium, neon, wood, textiles, plastics, clay and wire mesh. Lamers often collaborates with Yvo van der Vat under the name Lavart.