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Constant: Space + Colour
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?s 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). 00Exhibition: Cobra Museum Amstelveen, The Netherlands (29.05. - 25.09.2016).
The Activist Drawing
A reconsideration of Constant Nieuwenhuys's visionary architectural project, New Babylon, and of the role of drawing in and electronic age.
Work, Body, Leisure
This catalog documents the Dutch Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, which gathers contributions from architects, designers, historians and theorists exploring the emerging technologies of automation. Contributors include Amal Alhaag, Beatriz Colomina, Marten Kuijpers, Victor Muñoz Sanz, Simone C. Niquelle and Mark Wigley.
Constant Change. A Typographical Drifting Through the Work of Constant Nieuwenhuys
Dutch artist and sculptor Constant Nieuwenhuys a.k.a. Constant (1920?2005) is known for the great breadth of his work, which ranges from painting to music. This year he would have celebrated his 101st birthday. The graphic designers at Our Polite Society have used his artistic works as a basis for creating a typeface called Constant Change. It includes six cuts, each containing the twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Moving playfully through the alphabet, the typographic designs draw on some 100 works from Constant?s collection. The publication makes use of the tools of typography in a contemporary approach to historical works of visual art, while revealing the sources that inform the design...
Situationist International Anthology
The Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people’s passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of détournement (“rerouting, hijacking”). Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its “Communist” pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation ...
The Situationist City
Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the Situationist International left behind. From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western world. The movement's broadside attack on "establishment" institutions and values left its mark upon the libertarian left, the counterculture, the revolutionary events of 1968, and more recent phenomena from punk to postmodernism. But over time it tended to obscure Situationism's own founding principles. In this book, Simon Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural...
Narrative Architecture
The first book to look architectural narrative in the eye Since the early eighties, many architects have used the term "narrative" to describe their work. To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. Narrative Architecture explores the potential for narrative as a way of interpreting buildings from ancient history through to the present, deals with architectural background, analysis and practice as well as its future development. Authored by Nigel Coates, a foremost figure ...
New Babylonians
The Situationists, who first appeared on the architectural scene in the 1960s, regarded cities as the ultimate opportunity for creative self-expression. While there are many publications about the history of the Situationist International, New Babylonians offers unique coverage of how their tactics are currently employed in architectural and urban strategies. It features renowned architects and educators who were first generation Situationists and also highlights some of the most exciting international practitioners involved in urban design today. * Contains contributions from an impressive roster of academics, designers, writers, and art practitioners * Offers timely and lively insights about contemporary urban architecture and art
Cobra on the canal / druk 1
Het Ambassade Hotel aan de Herengracht in Amsterdam herbergt al jaren een grote kunstcollectie. Eigenaar en verzamelaar Wouter Schopman heeft een bijzondere passie voor de CoBrA beweging en verzamelde in de loop van de jaren honderden kunstwerken van deze roemruchte kunstenaarsbeweging. Kunsthistoricus Esther Scheuder kwam dat ter ore en zij besloot op een dag het Ambassade Hotel binnen te stappen. Zij trof daar inderdaad een bijzondere collectie aan van deels onbekende werken van Theo Wolvecamp, Corneille, Karel Appel en vele anderen. Een collectie van een verzamelaar laat een persoonlijke visie zien. Een gepassioneerde verzamelaar ziet andere dingen in de kunstwerken dan een conservator van een museum. Mede daardoor laat deze verzameling "nieuwe" Cobrapaden zien die afwijken van de geschiedschrijving en de interpretatie in de kunsthistorische standaardwerken.
