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Constant Nieuwenhuys - New Babylon Etching
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Leiderdorp, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since May 2022 • 18 sales
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Etching by the famous artist Constant, from the series, New Babylon. Signed in pencil by the maker and numbered. This is no. 9 of 20.
13 x 12 cm, the sheet of made paper is 48 x 60 cm. Constant Nieuwenhuys (Amsterdam 1920 - Utrecht 2005) was a Dutch visual artist, author and musician. He was a leading member of the Cobra art movement to which Karel Appel and Corneille also belonged. Constant is seen by many as the intellectual engine of this movement. Constant was not only a painter, but also a designer of visionary architecture that he presented under the title "New Babylon. He signed his work with his first name Constant and was usually referred to by this name as well. Constant, was not only a leading member of the CoBrA group, but is at least as famous for New Babylon, an imaginative project he worked on for nearly two decades. After World War II, he sees how everything has to be rebuilt and how society changes in the 1950s due to increasing automation. He revealed himself as a true visionary and showed the outside world what the new world would look like by means of models, constructions, geographical maps, paintings, drawings, watercolors, graphics, films, texts, lectures and temporary "environments.
Freedom;
In Constant's eyes, man will develop into a "homo ludens," a playing man, creative, free of work and free of borders. New living environments will be created above the existing cities where everyone will be free to go where they want. New Babylon is not fixed as a form, however; Constant merely made suggestions as to how the new world might be arranged. It is up to people to creatively shape New Babylon according to their needs. "Everything must remain possible, everything must be able to happen, the environment is created by the activities of life and not the other way around."
The etching is framed behind glass in a clear frame.
The etching is in very good condition, only the paper outside the etching is a bit yellowed.
The etching is in very good condition, only the paper outside the etching is a bit yellowed.
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ConditionGoodColorsWhite, BlackMaterialPaperNumber of items1ArtistsConstant Anton NieuwenhuysHeight36 cmWidth48 cmSigns of usageDiscoloring
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Leiderdorp, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since May 2022 • 18 sales