Constant. Space + Color
From May 28 - September 25, 2016
Constant. Space + Colour shows the experimental route Constant followed between his Cobra period and the New Babylon project in the 1950s.
Large-scale architectural constructions created in collaboration with Gerrit Rietveld and Aldo van Eyck, among others.
Exhibition design by Ben van Berkel (UNStudio).
The weekend of 28/29 May 2016 will be marked by the opening of two major Constant exhibitions in the Netherlands. Constant. Space + Colour will be presented at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, while the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will be showing Constant - New Babylon.
From Cobra to New Babylon
In the early 50s, Constant sought out new pathways along which art could contribute to the reconstruction of postwar Europe. He envisioned an art that was at once "lyrical in its means and social in its very nature" (1956). Until now, this period of Constant鈥檚 artistic development has been underexposed in museum exhibitions, despite the fact that during these years a radical change took place. Constant. Space + Colour at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art reveals this crucial period. The exhibition is curated by Ludo van Halem (Curator of 20th Century Art, Rijksmuseum), Trudy van der Horst (Board member and Head of Research, Constant Foundation) and Katja Weitering (Artistic Director, Cobra Museum).
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From May 28 - September 25, 2016
Constant. Space + Colour shows the experimental route Constant followed between his Cobra period and the New Babylon project in the 1950s.
Large-scale architectural constructions created in collaboration with Gerrit Rietveld and Aldo van Eyck, among others.
Exhibition design by Ben van Berkel (UNStudio).
The weekend of 28/29 May 2016 will be marked by the opening of two major Constant exhibitions in the Netherlands. Constant. Space + Colour will be presented at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, while the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will be showing Constant - New Babylon.
From Cobra to New Babylon
In the early 50s, Constant sought out new pathways along which art could contribute to the reconstruction of postwar Europe. He envisioned an art that was at once "lyrical in its means and social in its very nature" (1956). Until now, this period of Constant鈥檚 artistic development has been underexposed in museum exhibitions, despite the fact that during these years a radical change took place. Constant. Space + Colour at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art reveals this crucial period. The exhibition is curated by Ludo van Halem (Curator of 20th Century Art, Rijksmuseum), Trudy van der Horst (Board member and Head of Research, Constant Foundation) and Katja Weitering (Artistic Director, Cobra Museum).
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