In May, Coppejans Gallery will lend a selection of works by Jan Henderikse (born 1937, Delft, NL) to Museum EICAS in Deventer, where they will be presented in a major solo exhibition curated by Antoon Melissen. In the run-up to this museum project, I am also bringing Henderikse back into the spotlight at the gallery with the exhibition About Value.
This exhibition offers an in-depth insight into the long-standing, intuitive research of an artist who was constantly on the move in a changing world. Henderikse's involvement in the Dutch Informal Group and later the Nul movement, as well as his interactions with Nouveau Réalisme and Pop Art, make him what one might call an ethnographer of the present. Throughout his oeuvre, the same fundamental question recurs: what do we value? What is sentiment? And, on an even deeper level: what is value, actually?
To accompany the museum project, the very first Dutch-language book on the work of Jan Henderikse will be published, which will also be presented in the gallery.
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