Jan Hendrikse artwork • painting • previously for sale Untitled

Jan Hendrikse, internationally known artist, was initially part of the 'Informelen' (1958). Tired of paint and linen, he begins to experiment with reliefs of planks, boxes with corks and assemblies, repetitions of series of worthless discarded items. After contact with the German ZERO artists in Cologne, he founded the NUL group in the Netherlands in 1960, together with Armando and Jan Schoonhoven, among others. In the 1960s, and also after his move to New York in 1968, he made assemblies of large quantities of pennies, number plates, spray cans and plastic objects. He also focuses on creating compositions from rejected, ready-found, photos and films. Henderikse uses what he encounters and presents it in series, in repetition, without any comment. In 1996 he came up with a name for this work: Acheiropoieta (not made by man).