Constructies en maquettes

This reconstruction from 1959 was presented at the exhibition Constant: ruimte + kleur at the Cobra Museum in 2016. In Constant's first solo exhibition Constructies en maquettes at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from 4 May 1959 till 8 June 1959, Constant presents his models on black planes with black backgrounds with projections of coloured lights. Resonating with the movie Gyromorphosis by film maker Hy Hirsch, which premiered in Brussels during Expo 58  and was shown during this exhibition.

Documentation of the exhibition has been not been found in the archive of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The reconstruction is based on scant descriptions of the exhibition gathered from news paper articles and a letter by Martin Visser in the archive of the RKD.