Forever Friends (Requiem for my Innocence)

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 ‘Forever Friends – Requiem voor mijn onschuld’ (‘Forever Friends – Requiem for my innocence’). The visitor enters a cavernous space with walls entirely covered in paintings and crammed with unidentifiable objects that together form an impenetrable forest of fantastical creatures. Langner combines contrasting materials with nylon tights as cement, so that the created image remains mobile and changeable. He conjures each object into a living creature, through surprising combinations and the simple addition of a few eyes.