Bibliography

Review of the documentary Constant, avant le départ, by Anthony Enns in the journal Leonardo, volume 41, issue 2.

Essay by Bart Lootsma.

A hommage to Constant.

The article by Peter Shield reconstructs the 1949 Cobra exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Catalogue by the exhibition PÅSKE 2006.

On the occasion of the exhibition Revolver Verlag presents an extensive catalogue in a Polish-English version and a German-English version. The catalogue includes texts on all participating artists by authors like Manuel Borja-Villel, Luca Cerizza, Sebastian Cichocki, Mark Gisbourne, Brigitte Huck, Martina Fuchs, Daniel Marzona, Kaja Pawełek, Anda Rottenberg, Susanne Titz and four essential essays, dealing with the various aspects of the theme.

Accompanied exhibition In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni. Het verloren paradijs van de Situationistische Internationale in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht from December 14th 2006 to March 11th, 2007 travelling to Tingely Museum in Basel from April 4th to August 5th, 2007.

Publication with the exhibition Picasso, Klee and Miró and modern art in the Netherlands 1946 - 1958. Cat. text by Ludo van Halem and interview by Margot Welle.

Catalogue with the exhibition of the same title at Zeche Zollverein, Essen from August 26 till December 3, 2006. Featuring innovative international design, architecture and spatial interventions in a trans-disciplinary platform, the magazine; 'Talking Cities' stretches the boundaries of architecture and urban design and shifts our perceptions of contemporary city spaces. It is a dense collage of statements and designs that exemplify the dialogue on reconfiguring and reactivating the marginal, residual and public spaces of our cities.

A review of the documentary Constant, avant le départ for the TV broadcast.

Opening speech at the opening of Constant's oeuvre exhibition at Kunstmuseum Den Haag in 2005.

Newspaper edition dedicated to Constant accompanying the exhibition Ode aan Constant at Kunstmuseum Den Haag (formerly known as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag) 3 December 2005 - 26 February 2006.

Constant died in the summer of 2005. Thomas Doebele and Maarten Schmidt filmed the artist during the last months of his life. They followed him and his dog, Tikus, on their daily stroll to the artist's studio, where he finished his last painting Le Piège (The Trap). A personal tale about a great painter in the last months of his life, working on the final details of the horizon of his last painting, 82 min, 2005.

Constant’s “city for homo ludens,” New Babylon, was a “nomad camp on a planetary scale.” It was born in 1956 in Alba, Italy, in a settlement of Piedmontese travelers on the land of painter Pinot Gallizio. Fifty years later, Domus magazine visits the site to reconstruct the origins of architecture’s first nomadic utopia. Photography by Armin Linke. Edited by Francesco Careri (stalker/osservatorio nomade), Elena Sommariva

Obituary in The Times paying respects to Constant.

Column by Max Arian after Constant passes away August 1st, 2005.

Regarding Constant's (85) passing, 2005.

Obituary after Constant passes away on August 1st, 2005.

Obituary in Dutch newspaper Trouw.

Interview with Constant by Linda Boersma, translated from Dutch by Sue Smit.  

New Babylon visually captured by Constant's son Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth, 13 min, 2005. Available in archive for research purposes.

AVRO Kunst panorama, a series of 13 episodes about art and culture with a new item idea every week. The audience decides throug popular vote which formula will lead to a series. Presentation Nelleke van der Krogt. The first episode is about the history of modern art in the Netherlands with a focus on the difficult start of the artists of CoBrA in Amsterdam in the fourties. An episode suggestion by Eline Timmer and Tom Rooduijn. 

Publication on New Babylon bij María Fuentes Carrasco.

An hommage by Nic Tummers