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Heyden, J(acques) C(ornelis) J(ohan) van der
(b ’s Hertogenbosch, 23 June 1928). Dutch painter, conceptual artist and writer. He trained as a painter at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in ’s Hertogenbosch and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. In 1956 he settled in ’s Hertogenbosch as a painter. During that same year he was given an exhibition at Galerie Swart in Amsterdam. He stopped painting in 1967 when he was given a grant for research into the perception of light, time and space. He made a study of electro-acoustics, images and sound, and produced work for television, including Art is Only for Beginners (1969–70). During 1970 he worked on geographic space-relations (e.g. drilling a hole in his living room ‘to New Zealand’ and interchanging the soil with some from the other side of the earth). In 1972 he built an open-air studio. From 1973 to 1974 he experimented with time and investigated the energy used in breathing, feeding and recycling, and in 1975 he reworked pre-1967 paintings. From 1976 his work mainly consisted of aerial landscapes. His journeys to India in 1977 and the Himalayas in 1979 inspired him to make simplified paintings derived from photographic aerial landscapes, which he exhibited regularly from 1980 (e.g. Network, with Velasquez, van Gogh, Mondrian, Breughel and Emperor Zhu Gaozhi, mixed medium, 1990; Utrecht, Cent. Mus.). He also published several texts.
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