Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 1, 1968

Photographer

Tom Haartsen
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen A, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 1a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 2, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 2a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 3, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 2a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 04, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 4a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 5, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 5a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 6, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 6a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 7, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 7a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 8, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 8a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 9, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 9a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrsimen 10, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 10a, 1968
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Labyrismen 11, 1968

LABYRISMEN 01

1968
New Babylon
38,2cm
x 47,3cm
color lithograph
Collection Fondation Constant, 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. 

 

Signed/dated

Signed Constant, bottom right in black

Frame dimensions

No
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
Title Year Page Number
Constant. New Babylon. To Us Liberty 2016 168
Constant. New Babylon. Aan ons de vrijheid 2016 168
Constant, Graveur 2004 85 58
Constant, Grafiek 2004 85 58
Cobra: De kleur van vrijheid 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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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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