Voor de presentatie “Onze man in Parijs. Bogarts invloed op Schoonhoven en zijn vrienden” in Museum Prinsenhof Delft werd Coppejans Gallery benaderd in verband met de deelname van Jan Henderikse aan deze expo. De tentoonstelling is een zijproject van de veel grotere solotentoonstelling van Bram Bogart en behandelt de werken van de Nederlandse Informele Groep ten tijde van Bogart’s verblijf in Parijs.

The artists in this expo are Jan Schoonhoven, Armando, Kees van Bohemen, Jan Henderikse and Henk Peeters. From the mid-1950s they formed an artistic group of friends who were looking for “new” art. Bogart, who had lived in Paris since 1951, was an example for them and an important source of inspiration. In the same year informal art broke through in the French capital and ‘their man in Paris’ reported on this. This presentation, compiled by guest curator Antoon Melissen, shows a selection of twelve works from the years 1956-1959 that mark the birth of Dutch informal painting of which Bogart is the founder.

Coppejans Gallery loaned an informal work by Henk Peeters from 1959 to the expo.

link: expo at Museum Prinsenhof Delft