“AFTER THE LAUGHTER – the 2nd book of herakut” tells the story behind their stories.
It is a hand-made scrapbook with 240 fully collaged pages on which the duo shares the good sides and the bad from the second half of their collaboration years, 2009 to 2011.
It is just as personal as all their pieces and that makes it a piece of art in itself.
Herakut is the symbiotic name of a German artist duo, consisting of Hera (born 1981) and Akut (1977).
If they had to pick a symbol to describe their work, it would be this: trees – two trees with trunks twisted around each other, so tight that you would think they have grown together to one. They are clearly and proudly rooted in a soil called Graffiti, but today have branches that reach and bend beyond the walls of the street. Herakut links the rough and the straightforwardness of their sub-cultural home base with the technique and discipline of the world of Fine Arts. They are gate-crushers – but never forced or planned. Everything they do grows organically. They go by their own creative flow, neither by intention nor by the market.
