Spirit of Cobra, a major exhibition exploring the roots and inspiration of the European avant-garde Cobra movement, on view November 8, 2013 through May 18, 2014. Spirit of Cobra highlights the unique meeting of young artists who came together from several European countries in the aftermath of World War II to create a living art, based on spontaneity, experimentation, socialist politics, and exuberant optimism.
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Constant, Wild West, 1962, oil on canvas, 19 in x 43 in, Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, The Golda and Meyer Marks Cobra Collection, M-79.20
12-11-2013
As we speak Trudy, the president of Fondation Constant is flying back from Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she was present at the opening of the Cobra exhibition SPIRIT OF COBRA at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. She was invited by the museum as a representative of Constant and the foundation to be interviewed for the local public television station and for the archives of the museum.
NSU MUSEUM OF ART FORT LAUDERDALE ANNOUNCES
SPIRIT OF COBRA
11-11-2013
After a period of renovations Kranenburgh opens its beautiful new building to the public on November 12th with the exhibition Wonder. Two days before the official opening I was at the museum for a sneak preview of the exhibition. It was amazing to see the work Portret of Mati from 1946 hang next to the Portrait of Victor (Mati & Constant's son) from that same year.
Jørgen Nash, Constant and Victor Nieuwenhuys. Constant working on the mural of painted cement at the home of Jørgen Nash in Tibirkelunde, Denmark, in May 1949.
31-10-2013
In May 1949 Constant painted and sculpted a wall at the house of his friend Jørgen Nash in Tibirkelunde, Denmark, see photo.
Mira Sanders, The Journey, 2009 (videostill)
08-10-2013
ZATERDAG 19 OKTOBER | 16 UUR | MIJN DERDE LAND | FRANKENDAEL FOUNDATION, CLUB INTERBELLUM & WHITE RABBIT THEATER
"...Ik heb om aan dit noodlot te ontkomen,
Een derde land verzonnen in mijn hoofd,
Een land vertrouwd met leugens en fantomen..."
In de tentoonstelling Mijn Derde Land reizen we naar een land dat bestaat tussen verbeelding en werkelijkheid: een imaginaire bestemming als toevluchtsoord voor de hedendaagse mens. Vertrekpunt is het gedicht 'Contragewicht' van Gerrit Komrij.
Foto: Thomas Lenden
19-09-2013
Nieuw-West Open, het programma dat 60 jaar Westelijke tuinsteden viert, in een reis van 60 weken door de publieke ruimte presenteert:
DIALOOG MET EEN BEELD II
een performance van Danielle van Vree
DE POORT VAN CONSTANT
een dwaling door de tijd langs zeven performers
zaterdag 21 september 18.00-20.00
donderdag 26 september 18.00-20.00
vrijdag 27 september 18.00-20.00
zaterdag 28 september 18.00-20.00
zondag 29 september 18.00-20.00
13-07-2013
In June 2013 Anna Mikhailova premiered with her opera Constant Tranzit. She visited the foundation in December of the previous year in search of documentation en information about Constant, his New Babylon project and his contact with Debord.
Anna Mikhailova | Codarts Master Muziektheater
Sarah Creange and her colleagues discussing how to gow about moving this very vulnerable piece of art to its new home, The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
11-04-2013
After months of deliberation the curators of the Rijksmuseum decided that Ruimtecircus (Spacecircus) from Constant's New Babylon project was indeed the piece they wished to add to the new 20th century wing.
Le criminel, 1987
10-04-2013
Both these images are called Le Criminel, 1987 and supposedly signed by Constant but which of the two is an authentic work of art by Constant? This is one of the many authentication cases that the foundation is presented with each week.
Aernout Mik, Exhibition Architecture (After Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp), Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion, 2011, exterior detail, photo: Victor Nieuwenhuys
31-05-2011
AERNOUT MIK (artist, the Netherlands)
Exhibition Architecture (After Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp)