Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
* Constant gave this title in 1956. While in 1956 the term "Zigeuner" (Gypsie) was common, we would now speak of Roma or Sinti to denote people of that particulal cultural or ethnic group.
Work
Observatorium [II]
1956
52.0cm x 48.5cm x 48.5cm
brass, plexiglass
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 486
Ontwerp voor een zigeunerkamp in Alba
1956
13.7cm x 125.0cm x 125.0cm
aluminum, oil paint, plexiglass, steel, wood
Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
CID: 1180
Ronde vorm
1956
67.4cm x 71.0cm
gouache, paper, pencil, watercolour
Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
CID: 1359
Ruimte en beweging
1956
97.0cm x 76.0cm x 77.0cm
copper, dye, ink, plexiglass, plywood, steel
Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
CID: 1426
1955-1956
Ruimtecircus [I]
1956
69.5cm x 59.0cm x 59.0cm
iron
Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, NL
CID: 107
Constructed between 1956 and 1961.
Schaalmodel voor Draaibare Constructie
1956
44.0cm x 11.0cm x 9.5cm
brass, iron, paint, plexiglass
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 1607
The original Pivoting Construction's dimensions were: 396 x 95 x 86 cm
The executed construction suffered severe damaged from being located several time. The parts of the sculpture are currently in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The possibility of making a reconstruction based on the scale model is being considered.
Source: Van der Horst, Trudy. "Biography of Constant" Constant: New Babylon, edited by Mercedes Pineda, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2015, pp. 284-301.
