Cultivate who you become

Jan Henderikse radically changed his trajectory in 1960, definitively swapping his brushes for mountains of found objects. A leading figure of the Dutch group Nul, the artist prefers raw accumulation to the heroic gesture of traditional painting. At the BorzoGallery, corks, soaps and dollars lose their utilitarian function to become architectural and rhythmic motifs. These obstinate surfaces, where currency transforms into landscape, ironically question our relationship with consumption and abundance. More intimate than the recent EICAS retrospective at the museum, this presentation is accompanied by the release of a reference book by Antoon Melissen. One leaves the gallery with a transformed vision of what circulates in our hands: here, the banal is nailed to the wall to better fascinate us, like a visual refrain from which we can no longer detach.