Jan Henderikse - Topps - Sold

Jan Henderikse
Topps
2018
Multiple/collage
unique
27.5 x 22 cm
This multiple belonged to the Jan Henderikse publication by Antoon Melissen (Kerber Verlag, 2018).
4 baseball cards,

Jan Henderikse 1937 -

Jan Henderikse is a visual artist. He was born in Delft. During his studies at the Vrije Academie in The Hague from 1955 to 1958, he began making drawings informally. At his initiative, the first informal art exhibition took place in Delft in 1958. This first exhibition led to the emergence of the Dutch Informal Group, comprising Armando, Kees van Bohemen, Henk Peeters, and Jan Schoonhoven. In 1960, this gave rise to the Dutch Nul movement. He was the member of this group who worked with industrial products, distinct waste, and discarded materials, using them to create assemblages. He was not a man of the theory of Nul, but of doing and making; he saw himself as the artist with the lowest "Nul content." Central to the work of the Nul group of artists was an emphasis on the impersonal, the objective, in art. This was reflected in the use of materials, highly unusual for the art of the time, such as pennies and corks. The search for manufacturing procedures that possessed an external regularity and order, comparable to the production process within factories and businesses. He left the Netherlands and worked successively in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Curaçao, Antwerp, and New York.