Aflevering Designer

The first episode of Constant 1-on-1, Visionary, gave an introduction to Constant development as an artist until Cobra, we leave him at the beginneing of the Fifties. In episode 2, Designer, we pick up where we left off: 1952, after Cobra. Constant is looking around him a wondering how different art forms can be synthesized to have a more pronounced and positive influence on the world we live in. His quest will lead him through a labyrint of interesting collaborations and netwerks and eventually to the development of New Babylon. New Babylon, Constant’s design for the world wide city of the future, was inspired by the nomadic lifestyle of the Roma and Sinti people. In this episode of the series, we explore how it all began and what he envisioned it to look like, by speaking to the following people: Floris Alkemade: architect and former government architect Laura Stamps: curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Kunstmuseum Den Haag Willemijn Stokvis: art historian and Cobra expert Ronald Tolman: artist and friend of Constant Ludo van Halem: curator of 20th Century Art at Rijksmuseum