photo collage Should we go left or right, as an art duo we were always on the cross roads.
ART-BROTHERS
Art and projects by Wilhelmusvlug & Peter Hertogh aka the Art Brothers
the Windmill of our Minds oil paint on wood – 1990 200cm x 200cm Painted self-portrait of the Art Brothers, the Delftsblue frame was made by Peter hertogh. the Bowl of Plenty oil on canvas – 1995 140cm x 200cm The Bowl of Plenty was ment to…
Stage Design, Art Brothers For several years Peter & I were responsible for the styling, decoration and stage designs of the Dutch Poetry Night in the Vredenburg Music-centre, because everybody knows that poetry is a serious thing, we sometimes liked to use a little humor to lighten things up, like this…
Art Brothers, performance, photo, video When the city council of Amsterdam decided to build a huge city hall & opera building on the ruins of the old jewish quarter in the middle of the depression in the early 80’s there was a lot of resentment amongst the citizens of Amsterdam, there was a huge gap…
an Art Brothers performance & video short Inspired by flea infested wigs people used to wear in the 17th & 18th century we created enormous electro acoustic wigs which we used to compose a kind of baroque minimal music by scratching our hair at the Melkweg in Amsterdam. A…
video installation, Art Brothers Hans Appenzeller had a great idea to create exclusive gold leaf jewelry for your skin which had to be applied by him personally and could be washed off after. We visualized the concept on video for him to feature at the Uitmarkt in Amsterdam. music by Philip Glass
Art Brothers, performance Studium Generale Nijmegen and Doornroosje asked if we could make a performance for their festival about Decadence called the Flowers of Evil and ended up with the multi media new wave musical “Artificial Boredom” about two man bored with their youth, art & life. We performed the songs about all…
theatre play, Art Brothers Luc Boyer asked us to write and direct a theater play for his Japan series in theater Frascati which resulted in the hilarious play Hoezo Japan? (Why Japan?). The whole play was written in phonetical Japanese which we extracted from Japanese movies. Luc Boyer starred as a mad old…
Art Brothers performance – Museum Boijmans van Beuningen When we were asked to play our lyres at the opening of the spring exhibition at the museum Boijmans van Beuningen and discovered we were staged in the same gallery as Gilbert & George, we just had to improvise an ode to our heroes. …
interior design, Art Brothers Ron van Roekel was asked by the city hall to start a classic styled cafe restaurant in the Stopera (the new city hall & opera building) and asked Peter Hertogh and me to design everything, so we designed really everything you could think of, from the bar, the…
murals, light fixtures, Art Brothers When Ron van Roekel aka mister Heineken introduced us to Frans Monsma to create the right 30ties Cuban style for his new cafe & nightclub Havana in the Reguliersdwarsstraat we had no idea it would be the start of a whole chain of horeca projects for us in…
styling Art Brothers No-one could have guessed that the iT would turn into this famous hedonistic nightclub, a magnet for the extravagantly gays, not even it’s flamboyant host Manfred Langer. When we first presented our designs for the interior he dismissed most of them because they were to shocking and to gay for…
For years Peter & I designed the stages and decorations for mcVredenburg’s special events, these paintings which we made to decorate Blues Estafette 8 were inspired by old photos from the great American depression. Peter is applying flame retardant to our hand painted backdrop for the MainStage at the Blues Estafette. BewarenBewaren…
video The beautiful designs of LAM de Wolf look more like art objects than jewelry most of the time. This video installation shows how wearable they really are. commissioned by LAM de Wolf & Gallery RA video installation by the Art Brothers music by Maria Callas BewarenBewaren BewarenBewaren BewarenBewaren BewarenBewaren BewarenBewaren BewarenBewaren…