Essay by Bart Lootsma.
Documentation
New Babylon nu ook als spektakel
Blog by Piet Vollaard on ArchiNed about the 'New Babylon' building in Den Haag.
Stephen Gilbert
Obituary Stephen Gilbert in The Times. Constant is mentioned in a few paragraphs linked to Cobra.
Uit het atelier
A documentation of Constant's studio at Wittenburg in Amsterdam and the move in 2008 by Jan de Rode with music by Eric Vaarzon Morel.
Available in the archive for research purposes.
Constant
News item on the acquisition of the painting Fauna, 1949 by the Cobra Museum from the collection of Hans en Alice de Jong with a small item on the television art series Kunstuur.
October 14, 2006
Constant
News item on the aquisition of the painting Fauna, 1949 by the Cobra museum from the collection of Hans en Alice de Jong with a small item on the television art series Kunstuur.
Amsterdam, broedplaats van de avant-garde
Part 1 of the tv series Onmetelijk Optimisme, a documentary series about artists and their mediators from 1945-1970.
Koolhaas en Nieuwenhuys in de Barbican
Announcement of the exhibition Future City. Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
They came from outer space
Review of the exhibition Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2000 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
Constant avant le départ
Review of the documentary Constant, avant le départ, by Anthony Enns in the journal Leonardo, volume 41, issue 2.
The 1949 Cobra Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The article by Peter Shield reconstructs the 1949 Cobra exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Constant's grave at Zorgvlied
Constant's grave at Zorgvlied.
The stone reads:
In de kunst manifesteert zich de vrijheid
in zijn hoogste vorm:
de scheppende verbeelding.
De kunst schept een beeld van de wereld
dat niet eerder bestond,
neen, méér dan dat,
een beeld dat voordien ondenkbaar was.
Constant 1991
Nog één keer de trap afdalen
A review of the documentary Constant, avant le départ for the TV broadcast.
Ode aan Constant
Opening speech at the opening of Constant's oeuvre exhibition at Kunstmuseum Den Haag in 2005.
Constant Krant
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, avant le départ
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 and New Babylon’s roots
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