Tracing the Wind

What marks Hervé Constant's oeuvre is a remarkable generosity of spirit, and humility. Profoundly engaged in his work, he is at the same time highly in tune with his surroundings, exhibiting a particular ability to extract the essence of his subject mat...

Since its inception, the Tarot has inspired and awed countless generations of people. Esoteric, undeniably attractive, stridently magical, these brightly coloured cards of fate and fortune are heavily symbolic and at the same time, as natural and often chillingly strai...

Le Musée Rimbaud de Charleville-Mézières rend un hommage

permanent au jeune poète.

La vie et l'œuvre d'Arthur Rimbaud y sont évoquées par de

multiples témoignages mais la difficulté d'une telle entreprise

est de donner la vie, une âme a cette présentation.

L'émotion doit êt...

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1. Tell me something about you and your life as an artist in London.

I was born in Casablanca, Morocco.  My mother was Moroccan and my father French, but my parents separated when I was 5 and both my brother and I went to live with my father in...

Herve Constant’s major preoccupation is communication. This is, of course, another way of saying ‘the modern world’, since it is communication itself, the flow of information, which underpins our contemporary way of life. Constant sees the images which occur in his pai...

July 29 - 10 September, 2010

Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer College

LOS ANGELES. Pitzer Art Galleries presents an annual installment of a text project bearing the title of Writ Large. The artists involved this year, Marcus Civin, Patrick Hebert, Jane Mi, and Her...

P: The first question I want to ask you, Herve, as I stand in the middle of your studio in Hackney, east London, is: where do you come from and why did you move to London?

H: I was born in Casablanca, Morocco. I left Morocco when I was about five years old and moved wit...

Between 1978 -1984 Herve Constant produced painting after painting, yet within a year of his first sojourn in painting, he was painting in a completely different and new way. By a process of deliberation and control the body of his paintings were carefully composed.

One...

You are a young painter, what has influenced you most?

I believe influences act on the unconscious. You discover them after the event. They often come out after a work has been done. You could not say I was influenced by one painter more that any other. Influences work...

This exhibition at the Ben Uri Art Society brings together paintings by artists Yair Meshoulam and Herve Constant. Since the Society was founded in 1915, its primary aim has been to promote the Jewish visual arts as part of the Jewish cultural heritage. Over the years,...