Langner, Hans
Hans Langner has been making a furore since 1996 as Birdman, with performances among audiences in which he turns into a bird and thus presents these creatures to ‘our world’.
Langner is a wonderful example of the ‘playful man’ (homo ludens), people who are deadly serious about filling their life with play for the sake of playing. And it has a greatly inspiring and contagious effect. He is at his best when creating improvised ‘art’ from unwanted old things. In 1999 he offered to create an installation in Museum De Stadshof – by way of shedding his old outsider skin, and coinciding with the transition to a new millennium – of 2000 objects, entitled ‘Requiem voor mijn onschuld’ (‘Requiem for my innocence’).
marcelkoppenfotografie.nl/Hans Langner
Requiem for my Innocence, 1999, comprising 2000 objects dating from the period 1993-1999.
1964 Karlsruhe, Germany -
