Documentation

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.

Part 1 of the tv series Onmetelijk Optimisme, a documentary series about artists and their mediators from 1945-1970.

Announcement of the exhibition Future City. Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006

Review of the exhibition Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2000 at the Barbican Art Gallery.

Review of the documentary Constant, avant le départ by Anthony Enns.

Essay by Bart Lootsma.

A hommage to Constant.

The article by Peter Shield reconstructs the 1949 Cobra Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

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

A review of the documentary Constant, avant le départ for the TV broadcast.

Opening speech at the oeuvre exhibition in 2005.

Newspaper dedicated to Constant accompanying the exhibition Ode aan Constant at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 03 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 Italy, at Alba, in a settlement of Piedmontese gypsies on the land of painter Pinot Gallizio. Fifty years later, Domus 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 Times London paying respect to Constant.

Column by Max Arian after Constant passes away August 1st, 2005.

Regarding Constant (85) his passing, 2005.

Obituary after Constant passes away on August 1st, 2005.

Obituary in Trouw.

Interview with the artist by Linda Boersma, translated from Dutch by Sue Smit.