Henriëtta van de Westelaken

Beyond the Party, Holiday Time

Henriëtta van de Westelaken's oeuvre consists of composite ready-mades obtained here and there.

Artist designer, Henriëtta van de Westelaken (1950) is from the Tubberware Parties generation.

Earl Tupper (1907-1983) is the inventor of airtight plastic boxes. The unique sales method via the famous Tubberware parties, an idea of his business partner Brownie Wise, has benefited the company to this day. In the Netherlands, the Parties were especially popular in the 1960s and 1970s. They will certainly live on in the memories of the generations of the Reconstruction.

Henriëtta knows the Tubberware story and has experienced it.

The brand's colorful and inventive kitchen accessories challenged her imagination to play with this home, garden and kitchen material. She unites the two constants in her works: collecting and playing with found objects in an artistic way in her assemblages. For the composition technique, she was inspired by the motor development of a child in the first years of life. The child learns to organize spatial objects by first placing them next to each other and then stacking them. She chose those primary stacking techniques as a starting point. Her imagination does the rest.

The functional has turned into playful, cheerful and colorful stacked storage boxes, they might stimulate your imagination before, during and after the holidays.

On display until August 28, 2022.

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