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Willehad Eilers

Changement - AKTE III
Material
Acrylverf op hout
Year
2024

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’.

About the artist

Willehad Eilers

Origin
Amsterdam
Profession
Artist
Website
Wayne Horse

Willehad Eilers also works under the pseudonym Wayne Horse. Eilers began his career in the German graffiti scene and later graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, before attending the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. His eclectic oeuvre is distinctive for its lyrical quality, playful humour and expressiveness.
In his artistry, Eilers explores the heuristic political and cultural mores that define contemporary society. For him, art does not constitute a solution to a problem, but an exploration (sometimes with his eyes closed) of everyday situations.