Documentation

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.

Constant and his dog Tikus standing next to his paintings L'incendie [II] and L'incendie at studio Wittenburg in Amsterdam, ca 2005. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image    

Constant and his wife Trudy sitting outside on the veranda in Utrecht, ca 2005. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

Constant and his wife Trudy sitting outside on the veranda in Utrecht, ca 2005. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

Constant standing next to his paintings L'incendie [II] and L'incendie at studio Wittenburg in Amsterdam, ca 2005. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image

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

At studio Wittenburg in Amsterdam. NB: We do not have a version fit for print of this image