Essay on Constant’s New Babylon by Darren Jorgesen and Laetitia Wilson for Invisible Culture, 2017.
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This interview is part of the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant. The Oral History Project is financially supported by Stichting Jaap Harten Fonds and Gifted Art.
Willemijn Stokvis | Art Historian
2017
In this interview for the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant art historian, Willemijn Stokvis talks about her encounters with Constant in the seventies and eighties, his influence within the CoBrA group, their first exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the encounters with the artists that led to her thesis and her personal memories of him.
Interviewer: Karel Ankerman
Vlijmscherpe knorrepot met feilloos gevoel voor kunst
2017
Article on Hans Sonnenberg (1928-2017), gallerist of Gallery Delta, who died September 29, 2017 by Peter de Waard in De Volkskrant.
60 Years of Recuperation | Are the Situasionists still relevant?
2017
Sixty years after Guy Debord, joined by a group of artists, thinkers and revolutionaries, established the Situationist International, the forms of advanced capitalism they critiqued - commodity fetishism, social alienation and the replacement of significance by spectacle - have become the bedrock of twenty-first-century society. So what is their legacy today? McKenzie Wark weighs things up.
Renewed art is not interesting for me. Why always renew art?
2017
An interview with Constant by Mark Rappolt, 2003.
Frank Lodeizen: Bevrijd door Cobra en de Vijftigers
2017
A preview of the book Dichter van de droge naald. Frank Lodeizen 1931-2013 by Rineke van Houten in Vrij Nederland, September 2017. A charming insight of the scene the Cobra artists and poets moved around in.
Een zaal in De Acht Zaligheden in Eersel staat in het teken van 't Spectrum. © Fotopersburo van de Meulenhof BV
Kleine maar fijne design-expo in Eersel
2017
Review of the exhibition Spectrum Design - van Rietveld tot Wilcke at Museum De Acht Zaligheden. Mentioning the furtniture that Constant designed for t Spectrum in 1953.
Artful Volumes: Constant: Space + Color
2017
A book review of the catalogue Constant: Space + Color. From Cobra to New Babylon in Bookforum, summer 2017.
Baldadig minimaal
2017
Writer/poet K. Schippers shares his memories about architects and artists surrounding Theo van Doesburg, founder of De Stijl.
Quote from the article about the Cobra exhibition in 1949 at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam:
Triennale di Milano - mostra “La Terra Inquieta”
2017
Interview with Massimiliano Gioni - Fondazione Nicola Trussardi about the exhibition LA TERRA INQUIETA at the Triennale Milano from April 28th till August 20th.