Bert Hermans
kunstinzicht.nlSolo exhibition on youtube first price contest Light Space & Time Online Gallery
Herbert is an award-winning artist based in the Netherlands. Herbert will now be promoted by the gallery with an extensive public relations campaign.
For this solo exhibition, the Gallery will distribute, promote and circulate press releases to over 550+ major News Outlets, including Premium FOX, CBS, and NBC Affiliated Sites, with guaranteed inclusion on Google News & Bing News. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST gallery’s broad social media network.
In addition, as part of his award package, Herbert will now be featured as a Light Space & Time – Artwork Archive promoted artist.
Herbert’s art will also be featured on the gallery’s YouTube Channel and with an event postcard.
The “Solo Art Series” is a series of monthly solo art exhibitions for established artists who have a body of work to present to the public. Artist participants were asked to submit the following 3 components for the “Solo Art Series” competition: 1. Their art. 2. Their artist biography. 3. Their artist statement. These elements were evaluated and judged, which resulted in the selection of the artists who will be featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions. This was the 14th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition that the gallery has conducted.
Making process 'Labyrinth' and explanation 'Pass by'.
TV broadcast 'With Fun & Passion' April 23 2022
Fayum portraits
Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Faiyum Basin, particularly from Hawara in the Fayum Basin and the Hadrianic Roman city Antinoopolis. "Faiyum portraits" is generally used as a stylistic, rather than a geographic, description. While painted cartonnage mummy cases date back to pharaonic times, the Faiyum mummy portraits were an innovation dating to the time of Roman rule in Egypt. The portraits date to the Imperial Roman era, from the late 1st century BC or the early 1st century AD onwards. It is not clear when their production ended, but recent research suggests the middle of the 3rd century. They are among the largest groups among the very few survivors of the panel painting tradition of the classical world, which was continued into Byzantine and Western traditions in the post-classical world, including the local tradition of Coptic iconography in Egypt.
The portraits covered the faces of bodies that were mummified for burial. Extant examples indicate that they were mounted into the bands of cloth that were used to wrap the bodies. Almost all have now been detached from the mummies. They usually depict a single person, showing the head, or head and upper chest, viewed frontally. In terms of artistic tradition, the images clearly derive more from Greco-Roman artistic traditions than Egyptian ones. Two groups of portraits can be distinguished by technique: one of encaustic (wax) paintings, the other in tempera. The former are usually of higher quality.
About 900 mummy portraits are known at present. The majority were found in the necropolis of Faiyum. Due to the hot dry Egyptian climate, the paintings are frequently very well preserved, often retaining their brilliant colours seemingly unfaded by time.
Forge Lunaire
In Forge Lunaire, also known as the "Cathedral of Steel", up to 3000 tons of steel was produced daily until 2009. There are a total of three halls that were used for the various production parts of the steel. Many of the original production parts and machines can still be found. It seems as if everything was suddenly abandoned after the catastrophe of the end of steel production.
The factory inspired Bert to make several paintings, such as 'Tell Me' and 'Don't walk away'.
Railway Zone
The railway zone in Tilburg is a large, elongated area of 55 hectares
running through the city centre. It is not uniform but has three distinct subsections,
of which the NS (Dutch Railways) workshop section to the immediate north of Central Station is the most interesting, since this subsection will eventually become a dynamic extension of the current city centre.
Exactly one hundred and fifty years after construction of this workshop area began,
Dutch Railways have moved out and returned the site to the city. Redevelopment of
the NS workshop section, with its monumental buildings, will reinvigorate Tilburg’s
cultural heritage. These historic structures – along with other railway elements such as rails and signals – imbue the area with a unique quality and energy, making the railway zone a fascinating combination of urban renewal and industrial heritage.
The railway zone has a history, a past in the form of vacant buildings from
different periods that represent a considerable range of late-nineteenth and twentiethcentury industrial architecture, and the area is also profoundly marked by remnants that evoke the theme of passage. These vestiges of the past include not only the workshops once used for train maintenance, but also the extant infrastructural elements, such as rails, switches and signals, which relate directly to transport and travel, concepts that are inseparable from the notion of time. The past can clearly be felt in this place, and yet the entire redevelopment zone is oriented towards the future.
After a visit to the Railway Zone on July 11, 2015, Bert has painted eight small oil paintings of the main halls of the former railway complex. Four of them were exposed during the exposition 'Little Treasures' that was held in Bologna (Italy) from November 28 until December 11, 2015.
The other four paintings were exposed in the Marziart International Gallery in Hamburg, Germany. The exposition was held from April 22 until May 18, 2016.
The Royal Leather Factories Oisterwijk
The place Oisterwijk was known for many years beacause of its tanneries. In this context, the Leather Factory Oisterwijk was founded by Mr. O.J. van der Aa. In 1920 the company was taken over by the leather group of family Adler and Oppenheimer. They had factories throughout Europe and the company specialized in calf leather.
In 1932 the Royal designation was granted and the company became known as Royal Leather Factories Oisterwijk.
The period of mergings and acquisitions began in 1966. The company was taken over by the conglomerate Hagemeyer In 1970. Hagemeyer also acquired the Royal Chrome Leather Factory Amstel Waalwijk. The two companies merged in 1974 and became known as Royal United Leather. Meanwhile it started getting worse in the leather industry, and in the 90s of the 20th century losses piled up and the company was closed in 2000. In 2004 the Royal United Leather was declared bankrupt.
In 2009, the township and county jointly became the owner of the premises. The project called 'My beautiful Brabant' has started the renovation of the boiler room and engine room. Diederendirrix architects started in 2010 with making plans for the restructuring of the whole area, including approximately 26 000 m of industrial heritage and national monuments.
Bert visited the site and made several Sketches and photographs that he used for his paintings. The video provides an overview of the whole complex including some particular sites which can be discovered in the paintings sometimes in another shape.