Henderikse (*1937 in Delft, the Netherlands) called a 1996 exhibition of his ready-mades Acheiropoieta (literally "not handmade"), an antique term for a particular type of icon that originates miraculously. As early as 1961-62, the artist's works summarized or anticipated major contemporary trends in art based on employing everyday materials in the tradition of the ready-made: assemblage; montage; the serial stringing together of commonplace objects such as corks, coins, and wrappers; the purism of the Zero movement; echoes of Nouveau Réalisme; and Pop Art. Henderikse augmented his material basis in the seventies and eighties with conceptual artists' books, photographic series, and installations comprising "ready-found" photographic material and films.
This monograph lists major works from public and private collections for the first time, thus enabling renewed access to the artist's complex multimedia oeuvre.