The crows that artist Herman Lamers has made have come together for a meeting. They are sitting on and around folding chairs that have been set up for a meeting, with an enormous egg in the middle. “Groups of crows are always busy holding meetings,” Lamers says. “And I’ve given them something to talk about together.” To the side of the meeting, he placed his sculpture of a shivering dog. It is looking the other way. “He can’t take part in the discussion about the egg.” The dog is therefore the ‘outsider’, from the title of this artwork.
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. Be sure to also take a look at the Neude. Lamers has shaped part of the Utrecht city square with various works, including his monumental Eyes Wide Open Church. And just around the corner, 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.
