Just before a performance, the Chassé Theatre’s lively foyer feels like a covered street in a busy metropolis. Herman Hertzberger’s architecture is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, which is why the mural in this foyer changes annually.
‘Beauty arises from flaws and the unexpected,’ says Amsterdam-based artist Willehad Eilers, also known as Wayne Horse. In a hugely varied body of work, Eilers highlights contemporary existence. With biting humour and childlike playfulness, he focuses on the bizarre, the grotesque and the flawed; his creations are examples of what James Clifford calls ‘ethnographic surrealism’.