Constant: Space + Colour: From Cobra to New Babylon

Constant: Space + Colour: From Cobra to New Babylon

Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920–2005), known as Constant, was a founding member of the Cobra group and the Situationist International, and the artist behind the utopian architectural <I>New Babylon</I> project.<br>This publication examines his practice in the 1950s and his transition from Cobra to <I>New Babylon</I>. In this decade, the fantasy figures of Constant’s Cobra period were followed by abstract painting, a transition from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional plane with the architectural models and sketches made for the <I>New Babylon</I> project, and ultimately a return to painting with the color experiments that he pursued from 1969 until his death in 2005.<br><I>Constant: Space + Colour</I> gathers rarely seen works alongside a short selection of texts written between 1949 and 1965, which provide a glimpse into the radical transformations of these years.