It’s been four years since the idea of a large New Babylon retrospective was conceived and a co-operation with Gemeentemuseum, Fondation Constant and Museo Reina Sofia was suggested. In those four years the exhibition grew from a suggestion into a full grown exhibition, which opened last Tuesday, October 20, 2015. And from the friendliness of the Reina Sofia staff to the passion and engagement of the audience I can only use superlatives to describe the experience.
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Photo: Hennie de Boer
29-10-2015
14-10-2015
Sold for 1 Dutch guilder, with the contributors randomly listed their names spelled without capital letters, the leaflet Provo 4 offers a unique view into 1965 with an interview about New Bablyon with Constant.
Cobra works by Asger Jorn and Constant.
Credit 2015 Silkeborg/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, billedkunst.dk; 2015 Constant/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam; Asger Jorn/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, billedkunst.dk; 2015 Silkeborg/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, billedkunst.dk, Genevieve Hanson, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo
14-10-2015
Read the article here: Cobra Artists Worked With a Passionate Style to Match Their Name
By Roberta Smith, New York Times, Oct 8, 2015
12-10-2015
The clock is quickly ticking towards the opening of the largest New Babylon exhibition EVER! 150 works by Constant from all over the world will be shown at the Reina Sofia from October 21 2015 till February 29, 2016 together with two spectacular reconstructions. Last week our works arrived in Madrid with our courier and and restorer Janine van Reekum. With eight days to go till the grand opening, we are getting extremely excited looking at these photo's. Tic tac tic tac...
Wiel and the students interview Mark Wigley
12-10-2015
The video registration of the Mark Wigley-Constant Dialogue at IIT is available here: LECTURE VIDEO
Beauty of the Unknown
12-10-2015
A special presentation with pop up musea of work by Gerrit Rietveld, Martin Visser and Constant Nieuwenhuys and a selection from the current collection with an introduction of new designs. On the occasion of the Dutch Design Week Spectrum opens three special POP UP MUSEA. Three guest curators will create spaces with less well known work of iconic names from the Spectrum collection of the last century.
Curators
Constant Nieuwenhuys by Ludo van Halem (Fondation Constant, Rijksmuseum)
Miro & Cobra
12-10-2015
The beautiful exhibition Miro & Cobra opened in the Cobra museum of modern art last Friday. The exhibition brings together an amazing body of works by Miro and the Cobra members and creates a magical maze of wnder. An absolute must see
Miró & CoBrA. The Joy of Experiment
on show from 10 October 2015 to 31 January 2016.
Constant-Gewonde Duif, 1951, Collection Stedelijk Museum
16-08-2015
We've described and photographed all Constant's work from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, check it outt here!
07-08-2015
The idea first came up during the Tefaf of 2014 and now we are proud to present: Constant at the Dean's Lecture Series at IIT!
WED, SEPT 16, 6:30 P.M.
MARK WIGLEY, Constant Niewenhuys’ Biographer, LUDO VAN HALEM, Curator of 20th Century Art, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, TRUDY VAN DER HORST, wife of Constant and founder/board member of Fondation Constant, WIEL ARETS, Dean of IIT Architecture, in a Dialogue on “New Babylon”.
Photograph of Eugène Brands, 1947© Frits Lemaire / Maria Austria Instituut, Photo: Frits Lemaire
05-08-2015
Blum & Poe, New York: September 9 – October 17, 2015
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles: November 5 – December 23, 2015