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 straightforward as one could hope for. Hervé Constant has chosen this deck of mystical cards for his latest inspiration which, in fact, follows on from his other passions of the last few years. Constant is a man who

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 être présente, et c'est en accueillant des artistes et des poètes que le Musée Rimbaud accède a une plus grande authenticité. Hervé Constant a exploré cette voie avec une sensibilité et une intuition poétique

www.artapartofculture.org 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 the South of France, near Toulon where he was born. I do not have an academic background. When I was young, I worked in a shop selling car parts. There I met the director of the students’ parents’ association

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 paintings – a wheel, a tree, a telephone, a chair – as symbols or, at least, as being symbolic in some indefinable way. That is, their possible meaning is somehow radically impenetrable. The inherent problems, the

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 Hervé Constant are not supposed to share a common thematic but a common visual feature: the use of language. Written words are used as nude, bare instruments of communication where the observer’s reading interpre

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 with my father and brother to the south of France. My background is in theatre. I studied in the Conservatoire de Theatre in Toulon, and when I finished my studies in Toulon, I got a grant to go to the Ecole Natio