Documentation

Constant at his studio Wittenburg, ca 1965.

ca 1965 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

f.l.t.r.: Constant, André Volten and Shamai Haber working on the design for the Evoluon square Eindhoven.ca 1965 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

Circa 1965

In De dialektiek van het experiment (The Dialectic of the Experiment) Constant looks back at the preceding period in his career and the radical transformation that took place in his artistic development during the 1950s. He declares that while he can visualize ‘unitary urbanism’, the present state of society is fundamentally different from the societal situation essential to the realization of such a revolutionary programme. Consequently, unitary urbanism remains limited to isolated experiments and a programme.

Review in Algemeen Dagblad by Anthony Bosman of the exhibition CONSTANT 1945 | 1965 at Gallery Krikhaar from January 2 till February 2, 1965.

f.l.t.r.: Hein van Haren, Constant, Peter Clough, André Volten and Shamai Haber (seen from the back) in Constant's studio Wittenburg.ca 1965 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

f.l.t.r.: Johnny Jacobs, Louis kalff and Jean Leering at the Evoluon park design exhibition at Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image.

f.l.t.r.: Louis Kalff, die in 1961 bij Philips de leiding en uitvoering van het Evoluon kreeg; Jean Leering, directeur van Abbemuseum; André Volten en Constant op de tentoonstelling in 1965 van het Evoluon park ontwerp in het Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image.

At the New Babylon exhibition in the Dominicanerkerk Maastricht, 1965. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image.

New Babylon: een schets voor een cultuur is an Dutch adaptation of an original German manuscript in collaboration with Caspari translated and adjusted by Constant. A summary of the Dutch text was published in 1974 in the exhibition catalogue at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Neither the original Dutch text of 125 pages nor the German manuscript of 165 pages was ever published as a whole until 2021.

At the New Babylon exhibition in the Dominicanerkerk Maastricht, 1965. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image.

New Babylon exhibition in the Dominicanerkerk Maastricht, 1965. From left to right: Nic Tummers, unknown man, Constant, Nel. 

f.l.t.r.: Nic Tummer, unknown man, Constant and Nel at the New Babylon exhibition in the Dominicanerkerk Maastricht, 1965. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image.

At New Babylon exhibition in Maastricht with Space Circus in the front, 1965.

Peter Clough working on the Windharp. Design for the Evoluon square in Eindhoven. ca 1965 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

Phantastische Architektur (Fantastical Architecture) in Speculum Artis. Zeitschrift für alte und neue Kunst, vol. 17, nº 4, April 1965, p. 17-22.

Circa 1965 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image.

Circa 1965 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image.

The photo was taken in the studio of Constant Nieuwenhuys with André Volten and Peter Clough while they were working on the Evoluon park design Eindhoven.ca 1965 NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image