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Tom Haartsen
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LABYRISMEN 01
1968
38,2cm
x 47,3cm
color lithograph
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
Collection Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Donated by the Golda and Meyer Marks Cobra Collection
Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, NL
Collection Frans Hals Museum, NL
Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
CID
842
11 lithographs by Constant with texts by C. Caspari. Typographics done by Constant. Printed by P. Clement, Amsterdam.
Edition: 76
Published in house as a co-op with Gallery Krikhaar Amsterdam.
‘Labyrismen’ is a visualisation in word and image of New Babylonian. The German texts by Caspari are written in his spontaneous handwriting; sometimes words are even crossed out. The texts explain the meaning and importance of labyrinths in New Babylon as being a playground for the New Babylonians.
Constant made a deliberate choice to keep the scenery and population of New Babylon vague. It was the New Babylonians themselves who would ultimately decide what New Babylon looked like, as he continually emphasized.
Details
Signed/dated
Signed Constant, bottom right in black
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No
Bibliography
Books
| Title | Year | Page | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constant. New Babylon. To Us Liberty | 2016 | 168 | |
| Constant. New Babylon. Aan ons de vrijheid | 2016 | 168 | |
| Constant, Grafiek | 2004 | 85 | 58 |
| Constant, Graveur | 2004 | 85 | 58 |
| Cobra: De kleur van vrijheid | 2003 | 127 | |
| Cobra. The colour of freedom | 2003 | 127 | |
| The Hyper-Architecture of Desire | 1998 | 190 | |
| De taal van Cobra | 1995 | 254 | 188 |
| Cobra Liege 93 | 1993 | 259 | 20 |
| Cobra in het Stedelijk Museum van Schiedam | 1984 | 33 | 48 |
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Exhibitions
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Cloud ’68 Paper Voice | 2018 |
| Constant - New Babylon. Aan ons de vrijheid | 2016 |
| Cobra | 1000 Days of Free Art | 2015 |
| DREAD | 2013 |
| In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni | 2007 |
| Constant / New Babylon | 1998 |
| Constant / New Babylon | 1998 |
| Cobra in het Stedelijk Museum van Schiedam | 1984 |
| Cobra in Haarlem | 1975 |
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Work
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| LABYRISMEN 00 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 01A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 02 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 02A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 03 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 03A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 04 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 04A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 05 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 05A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 06 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 06A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 07 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 07A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 08 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 08A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 09 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 09A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 10 | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 10A | 1968 |
| LABYRISMEN 11 | 1968 |
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