The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, in collaboration with the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, will be hosting the exhibition called "Constant. New Babylon" until 29 February 2016, bringing together some 150 works by the founder of the CoBrA European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951.
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Manifesto
2015
A video installation of 13 short films (10 min) by Julian Rosenfeldt starring Cate Blanchet. The installation premiered in 2015 in Australia. The short where Cate Blanchet plays a homeless man is amongst others based on the text from Constant's Manifest for the Experimental Group Holland in 1948.
Nueva Babilonia, el país sin bandera de Constant
2015
A review of Constant. Nueva Babilonia by Javier Montes for ABC.es, November 13, 2015
Hoe creativiteit een talent van iedereen en een oplossing voor alles werd
2015
Essay by Lynn Berger for de Correspondent about the commercialisation of creativity and Constant's New Babylon
February 16, 2015
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.
Max Arian | Journalist
2015
In this interview for the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant journalist Max Arian speaks about his interview with Constant for his article in magazine De Groene Amsterdammer in 1995 (published in January 17, 1996). He recollects how the interview with Constant influenced his biography of Willem Sandberg and Constant's personality. His critical view of Sandberg shed new light on his impression of the legendary museum director.
Interviewer: Karel Ankerman
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.
Karel van Stuijvenberg | Collector
2015
In this interview for the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant art collector Karel van Stuijvenberg tells about his encounters with Constant, his obsession with collecting CoBrA art, organisingexhibitions in South-Amerika and the exhibition he made in Caracas with Graphic Work by Constant. | Interviewer: Karel Ankerman
Audio of the full interview, executed and documented in Dutch, is available in the archive for research purposes. Email Kim van der Horst for more information.
Critic's Choice 'The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up' at Blum & Poe: Startling work of Cobra artists
2015
Review of the exhibition The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
Constant y Bill, nuestra utopía, nuestra realidad
2015
Review of the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia at Museo Reina Sofia Madrid.
Europe’s 1940s Cobra Movement Rears its Head in the Contemporary Art World
2015
Review of the exhibition The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
The Avant Garde Won't Give Up
2015
Radio: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp talks about the plucky CoBrA artists at Blum & Poe.