Jan Hendrikse (1937), internationally renowned artist, was initially part of the 'Informals' (1958). Tired of paint and linen, he starts experimenting with reliefs of planks, crates with corks and assemblages, 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 assemblages of large quantities of cents, license plates, spray cans and plastic objects. He also focused on making compositions of rejected, 'ready-found', photos and films. Henderikse uses what he comes across and presents this in series, in repetition, without any commentary.
In 1996 he came up with a name for this work: Acheiropoieta (not made by human hands).
