Living statue: De Mosketier

1 (solo) performer

Indoor and outdoor

Actor

4 hours

In consultation

NL

This friendly, humorous, but above all beautiful statue will certainly be a great addition to your event! Covered in moss, it stands still—but it also makes the audience pause for a moment!

One for all... all for one! You can almost hear him coming—the Musketeer. As if he’d stepped right out of a movie, this noble man stands on his pedestal, showing off. He’s been standing there as still as a statue... so long that the moss has carefully covered his body. That’s why we don’t call him a Musketeer, but a Mosketier. His goal? To spread the moss among the people. This Mosketier is, therefore, anti-anti-moss—and you’ll have known that. This friendly, humorous, but above all beautiful statue will certainly be a great addition to your event!

Spread the moss, no war!

This act is based on a performance of 4 x 40 minutes. Please include your specific requests in the inquiry!

The living statue also has a name: Patrick van Horne. He’s in his 30s and a teacher by profession. His background in education makes it easy for him to stand in front of groups and entertain them. Patrick has been doing entertainment since 2000, first as a clown, and later adding statues and walking acts to his repertoire. Patrick on his motivation:

“Acting and entertaining are in my blood; it’s always a thrill to deliver a successful act. I regularly try out new ideas—that’s how the living statue came about. It looks easy, but it requires a more subtle and measured approach. You want to interact with your audience, so you have to get the timing just right.”

In 2012, Patrick decided to stop performing as the clown Patje so he could devote enough energy to his living statues and walking acts. Patrick has since proven that he’s earned his stripes. With his living statue of the “textile teut,” he won the Belgian championship in 2008 and placed second at the BeNeLux championship in Lommel that same year. The act “I Wood Be (a Statue)” also won awards: in April 2014, Patrick won the Borne op z’n Best festival (Netherlands) with this act and took third place at the living statue festival in Tegelen (Netherlands). After that, “I Wood Be a Statue” went on to take first place in Den Bosch and Maastricht, and was crowned the 2014 Belgian Living Statue Champion. As the icing on the cake, “I Wood Be a Statue” took home second place at Worldstatues 2014 in Arnhem.

In 2015, Patrick successfully defended his title as Belgian champion with the act “His Past, My Past.” He was not only named the best Belgian statue but also won first prize among all participating statues.

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