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,...

“The man whose thoughts, like larks, take to their wings

Each morning, freely speeding through the air,

Who soars above this life, interpreter

Of flowers’ speech, the voice of silent things!”

Hervé Constant is a poetic painter – Like the poet in Baudelaire’s text, his imag...

Hervé Constant : Illuminations in London Fields

I knew Hervé first of all as the painter who loved Arthur Rimbaud, the boy genius who flashed through London with his symbolist lover, Paul Verlaine. Rimbaud found an equilibrium, finally, in far-off Ethiopia, Hervé...

Much of Hervé Constant’s work has explored the journey of the soul in its search for fusion with the infinite. It was entirely appropriate that he was commissioned to paint a series of works based on the ancient symbols of the tarot.

HERVÉ CONSTANT AND THE TAROT 

Much...

A NEW INITIATIVE BY VIDEOCHANNEL Interview 2006
 

1. Tell me something about your life and the educational background 

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

What is your background? Interview recorded 27.02.90

Hervé Constant
HC I was born in Casablanca. My father is French and my mother was from Morocco. In 1955 Morocco became independent and our family was forced to leave the country. We then lived in Toulon where I was e...

Interview between the visual artist, Herve Constant and the psychotherapist Madelyn Freeman, November 98, London

MF: We have been discussing the process of artistic creation and I made the point regarding the rational and non-rational functions. Herve, would you reiter...

For the past three years, Herve Constant has looked to Arthur Rimbaud not merely as an inpiration but as an artistic muse, governing his entire œuvre and enlivening his creative thought process.

Born in North Africa, trained in France and now living in London, Constant...

Herve Constant paints in darkness in order to see clearly. As dusk falls outside the windows of his studio, which overlooks brick walls choked with drooping vegetation, he lights a candle in his basement studio near London Fields and works on a dimly lit canvas. Painti...

"The first study for the man who wishes to be a poet is his own self knowledge, entire; he seeks his soul, he inspects it, he tempts it, apprehends it…The poet makes himself a 'voyant' through a long, immense and reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of l...