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HERVE CONSTANT - CV
Born in Casablanca, French nationality.
Studio:10 Martello Street E8 3PE, London,England.
UK Telephone and Fax: (44)0207 249 6021
Email: info@herveconstant.co.uk
Website: www.herveconstant.co.uk
EDUCATION:
1967-70 Conservatoire National de Musique de Toulon
1971-73 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Techniques du
Theatre,Paris.
1980-83 Beaux-Arts de Toulon(Etchings/Silkscreens).
SOLO EXHIBITION:
1982 Galerie Brune,Toulon
1984 Studio Art Centre International, Florence , Italy
1985 Theatre Sextius,Aix-en-Provence,France
1987 Sala Alta, Cuenca, Spain
Kingsgate Gallery, London
1988 Galerie Sapet, Valence , France
1988 Central Space Gallery, London
1990 Galerie "La Tete d'Obsidienne", La Seyne/Mer,France
1990 Galerie Bercovy-Fugier, Bastille, Paris
1990 Wolverhampton Artists Group, Eagle Works , England
1991 Musee Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville/Mezieres, France
1992 Small Mansion Arts Centre, Gunnersbury Park , London
1995 Ben Uri Museum , 'As above so below' Soho, London
1995 Tricycle Gallery 'The Major Arcana', Images of the Tarot
1996 The Living Room 'A Pilgrim's Progress' Greenwich , London
1996 Alliance Francaise de Londres,London
1997 Dom Armije Museum , Tuzla , Bosnia
1999 Vermont Studio Center , Johnson , USA
2000 Galerie Genevieve Godar, Lille , France
2003 Gallery 5a, London , with Swiss artist Felix Baudenbacher, October
2004 Galeria do Poste Art Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro , March
2006 STU DIO RA, Roma Italy. Projection of 2 films, December
2007 New York University in London, presentation of two films, Jan
2007 Scarlet Maguire gallery, Kings Cross, London
2007 Studio Ra, Roma Italy
2007 Barbican Film cinema 1 Between Two Worlds July
Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1978 Fischer Fine Art Gallery , London
1984 Biennale de Nice, Espace Nicois d'Art Contemporain,France
1984 Arthoteque de Provence,'PREFACE' 10 artistes du Sud
1987 Galerie Matisse, French Institute, London
1988 8 Contemporary British Artists, Valence , France
1989 Oriel Mostyn Art Gallery 'Ways of Telling' Llandudno, Wales
1991 Phillips Fine Art Auction, 'The Green Contemporary Art', London
1991 Galerie Gammelstrand, Copenhagen , Denmark
1991 Plymouth Arts Centre,'The Poet in Paint', Plymouth , England
1995'95 Sorak International Biennale' Korea
1995 The Alsager Gallery, 'The Word is Art ', Stoke-on-Trent
1996'Under different Skies' , Copenhagen , Denmark
1996 Alvar Aalto Museum , Museum of Central Finland
1997 The City Art Gallery ,'Board Games', Leicester
1999 Jewish Museum, 'Magic & Mysticism', Camden Town , London
2000 Clare College Church , 'Zero-G', London
2000 EU-Man, Exhibition 'Participation' Kabelfabriken, Helsinki
2001 Biennale of St Petersburg, Russia, "Outside of the Inside" , july
2002 Museo National de Bellas Artes, Havana Cuba
2003 Artist's Book Triennal, Vilnius 2003,Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
2003 V Salon de Arte Digital, Galeria Carmen Montilla, Havana Cuba june-July
2003 Radio FM 104.4, Resonance. Talk about the book on Antonin Artaud The Screaming Body by Stephen Barber,
2004 T-DEUS : To Make a Portrait of God, Chapelle St Roch, Liege Belgium, FF04 Net Art Gallery New forms festival Technography 14th October - 28th October Vancouver Canada, File 2004 International Electronic Language Festival 22 Nov - 12 Dec Sesi Art Gallery Paulista Avenue Sao Paulo Brazil
2004 VI Salon International de Arte Digital, Havana Cuba , June
2004 OUTVIDEO festival, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg Russia , May-June
2004 VII Bienal do Reconcavo, Centro Cultural Dannemann, Bahia, Salvador , Brazil nov-jan 2005
2004 Ben Uri Gallery The London Jewish Museum of Art International Jewish Artist of the Year Award' short listed with the digital photo 'Jennie's Shoes'
2004 Encuentro Internacional Poesia Visual Sonora Experimental, Buenos Aires Argentina Sept - October
2004 Co-Curated with Louis Benassi 'Celebration' a mixed event based on the life and poetry of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Venues: NYU in London , 291 Gallery and Corsica Studios London
2005 MONA ,The Detroit International Video Festival, Third video Festival, USA Jan-Feb
2005 www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/concerhall Soundlab Channel Feb
2005 Thailand 3 rd New Media Arts Festival, sound and videos, Feb and June
2005 Island Art Film & Video Festival 05, video Portraits of Cath Diaz' March
2005 Seattle Print Arts, Seattle WA Michigan , USA April
2005 OUTVIDEO Festival 2, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg Russia
2005 Castello di Rivara Museum, Turin Homage to Arthur Rimbaud' may
2005 GALERI-X Obsession' International Video Art Festival Istanbul Turkey june
2005 Portobello Film Festival 4 21 august
2005 Sound Fetish' WPS1 part of the Archive of MOMA New York and Venice Biennale
Curator Steve Piccolo
2005 EAST 05 Norwich Art gallery, participant to the project Making Things Better' by Jonathan Pierce
Curator Gustav Metzger
2005 PI-Five video/short films festival, National Museum in Szczecin Poland and then Berlin Germany
2005 Concerthall at MediaCentre, Launch of Edition III Cologne Germany Oct
2005 Thailand/Australia, ElectroFringe Playhouse Theatre Newcastle SWA Oct
2005 Studio Eventi Magister (auction of 2 works) Milano Italy 21-22 Dec
2006 Paper politics' 2 Brooklyn New York USA curator: Josh MacPhee
2006 MAGMART video under volcano, public show at Videodrome Naples Italy
2006 Folate Iridescenti Villa Doria d'Angri Universita degli Studi di Napoli march
2006 PROJECT 59, third screening Tribeca New York USA
2006 Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Liege Belgium
A Terra Sacrificada Curated by Tamara LAI 5e Biennale de la Photo et des arts visuels, fev-mars
2006 59 Seconds Festival at Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport , Maine
2006 Self Portrait for Bethlehem , interactive media installation curated by Agricola de Cologne Alf Kahf Art Gallery Israel and Cologne Germany July
2006 Museu Historico de Santa Catarina Florianopolis Brazil curated by Flavia Fernandes
2006 Project 59, 59 Seconds Video Festival in April 2006 Germany , Poland , Austria and Slovakia . Curated by Irina Danilova
2006 Manastre Kisa film Gunleri Galatasaray Turkey selection by Hulya Kupcuoglu
2006 National Film Theatre, selected with video Run'. Projection organized by the Hayward Gallery July
2006 Ad Hoc Sant'Agata De' Goti (BN) - dal primo al 16 luglio 2006
2006 Knoll Galéria, Félperces felismerések Liszt Ferenc tér 10.G Budapest , Hungary
2006 Liverpool Biennale, The Projection Gallery Sept-Nov
2006 The Video Art Gallery, London (representing my video work) aug
2006 Kurzfilmfestival, Oberschoneweide Berlin Erstes Internationales October
2006 Centre Culturel Franais, Video Dia Loghi, Torino
2007 Kargart Video Festival, Istanbul Turkey
2007 MONA Museum of New Art Detroit, USA 2 films, March
2007 KargART Uluslararasi Video Festivali - Kurye / Courier Sergisi Istanbul Turkey March
2007 Academia Internacional de Cinema, Sao Paulo Brazil, March
2007 City in Motion finalist with the film Between Two Worlds Barbican big screen, 6 artists short listed.
2007 Portobello Film Festival, august, 2 films
2007 Ypec Yolu Film Festival Bursa Istanbul curated by Hulya Kupcuoglu
2007 Contemporary Art fair Istanbul Turkey Dec curated by Irmak Arkman
2008 City Without Walls Close to the Edge curated by Kevin Sampson New York US Jan March
2008 FILE - Electronic Language Festival "memoryscapes" soundlab IV Rio de Janeiro/Brazil March
2008 Portman Gallery, London The Stuff of Life 9 artists curated by Ricarda Vidal
Selected AWARDS,COMMISSIONS,PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
1983 Espace Interrogation, (Stained Glass panel:2x1m)Toulon
1984 Biennale de Nice,Award O.E.C,Nice,France
1984 Cercle des Officiers Mariniers,Toulon'Envol d'Icare'
1989 Galerie'La Tete d'Obsidienne',La Seyne\Mer
1990 Commission: A series of paintings 'Garden of Eden',
Private Collection, Norfolk
1990 Leicestershire Education Authority , England
1991 Collection Arthur Andersen & Co, London
1992 Musee Arthur Rimbaud,Charleville/Mezieres, France
1994 London School of Economics,2 paintings and Publication
for the 'Annual Review 93'
1994 Michael F.Howard, Tradition Bond brokers Ltd, London
1994 Institut Azazel,Chateau de Pauligne,Limoux,France
1995 Lynam Richard Partnership, London
1995 Foundation Azazel, Chateau de Pauligne, Limoux, France
1995 Earl Estates Limited, London
1996 Collection McKenna & Co, London
1996 Collection Arthur Andersen & Co, London
1996 British Art Council Award 'Under Different Skies', Copenhagen
1997 Award from Balkan Arts Link, to exhibit and work in Bosnia
1998 Vermont studio center, Artist's Grant for a residency Session
1999 John Lewis Partnership Grant, JL Brent Cross
2001 Peter Lang Publishing, inc..Painting 'Labyrinth', cover of a
book on Philosophy and Education, University of Minnesota , USA
2001 John Lewis, painting "voler vers la lumiere" 64x52in
2001 New York University in London , Bedford Place
2003 Library of Winchester, Artist's Book, Killing'
2004 Art Council of Macedonia , to join the art colony in Galichnik, august
2004 National Centre for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg Russia
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art , Skopje , Macedonia august, 2 paintings
2004 Vortice, 7 Encuentro Poesia Visual, Sonora . The artist's Book Killing' and the video Hand Ballet' july
2005 MONA, Museum of New Art , Detroit Michigan 2 videos
2005 GALERI-X Obsession' International Video Art Festival Istanbul Turkey june
2005 OUTVIDEO Festival 2, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg Russia
2005 Thailand 3 rd New Media Arts Festival, sound and videos
2005 Sound Fetish' WPS1 part of the Archive of MOMA New York
2006 MONA Detroit, USA 2 films
2007 Casoria Museum Naples Italy
2007 Musee de l'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou Paris, Artists Interviewss Book, by Nicholas James
2007 Winner of the competition I Love London organized by Filmaka and LoveFilm October
Selected PUBLICATIONS,REVIEWS:
1983 Le Courrier des metiers d'Art, NO 30
1984 Herve Constant ,Theatre Sextius,Pierre Minne,La Marseillaise
1984 Biennale de Nice,L.E Andreani,Var Matin
1984 Artheme Magazine,edition de Nice,France'Trois Laureats'
1986 Art 's Review, Vivien Lowenstein
1987'La solilad del Pintor ante el Lienzo' by Juan Paris
1987 Galerie Sapet, Introduction by Andrew Wheatley
1988 World Service radio, Interview with Pierre Lefevre,
1988 8 Contemporary British Artists, essay by Michael Archer
1990 Time Out, by Robert Macdonald
1990 C.V Journal of Art, Interviewed by Nicholas Wegner
1990 City Limits, Visual Arts by Mark Currah
1990 World Service Radio, Interviewed by Francois Turmell
1991 Surface and Symbol, essay by David Cohen. Gallery K + Gammel.
1991 The Good Times, Art & Museums by Robin Dutt
1991 Introduction to the catalogue 'Herve constant at the Musee
Arthur Rimbaud' by Curator Alain Tourneux, essay by Robin Dutt
1991 Phillips Fine Art, London ; The Green Contemporary Art Sale,
essay by Hugh O'Donnell
1991 The Poet in Paint, Plymouth Art Centre, curated & catalogue
essay by J.Livingstone
1991 Art's Review, 'Rimbaud,The poet in Paint'by John Furse
1991 Art Monthly 'Rimbaud Centenary; Plymouth 91 by John Furse
1991 Art's Review, The capsule', Bridge by Sarah Kent
1992 Evening Standard Magazine, by Andrew martin
1992 The New stateman by David Langsam, 'East End Open Studios'
1993 The Big Issue Magazine, Saunders
1993'The house of ideas', London School of Economics, essay
by the Professor David Ruben
1993 Independent Newspaper, 'Whitechapel Open & Open Studios'
by Iain Gale, may
1994 10+International Art Exhibition, 'From the same Wilderness',
1994 Ben Uri Museum , introduction by Julia Weiner
1994 Artists Newsletter,'10+International Exhibition', Karelian
1994 B Kahyh Bephncaha, Karelia Newspaper
1994 Arts in Westminster , Publication no32
1994 The Artist Magazine,10+international art Exhibition, Russia
1994 Introduction to the exhibition 'As Above so below'
by the writer Fernand Auberjonois, Ben Uri Museum
1994 JC Magazine, 'Mystical Matters', Impressions Diary
by Michelle Morris
1994 Interviewed on GLR radio, 'Kabbalah and its meaning'
1994 what's On magazine, by Ria Higgins
'Spiritual search for Man's Origins'
1995 Artists Review Book,april
1995' Herve Constant and the Tarot' by Erica Davies,
Director of the Freud Museum , London
1995 ES Magazine, by Emma Beal, Painting 'Death' from the Tarot
series, Major Arcana
1995 The Guardian Newspaper, 'A brush with genius:no10, Herve
Constant on Masaccio's Adam and Eve banished from Paradise
1996 Sue Hubbard, Essay for catalogue 'Under Different Skies',
Oksnehallen, Copenhagen
1996 Graphica Creativa 96, Alvar Aalto Museum , Jyvaskyla , essay
by Seppo Heiskanen
1997 Management Consultancy. 'Picture this. Consultants as
connoisseurs. 'By Alycen Mitchell and Nicholas King
1997 Artists Newsletter, Currents, 'Balkan Arts Link forged' by Susan Jones, Oct
1997 Arts Dialogue Magazine, Sept
1998 Le Journal du francophone, propos recueillis par Isabella Pitisci,
1998 OFFENE ateliers, Cologne , invited artist, oct
1999 Interview with Psychotherapist Madelyn Freeman, studio, nov
1999 Jewish Chronicle, 'Angels and Demons', Julia Weiner
1999 Metro Life, Jewish Magic and Mysticism, Claire Allfree
1999 Financial Times, Magical tour around a mystical tradition, august 27, by David Jays
2000 The Spirit of the Balloon, catalogue essay by Claire Lofting
2002 Biennale of St Petersburg's catalogue, Dialogues,
2002 IV Salon de Arte Digital, catalogue introduction by Abel Casaus
2003 Londoners, film by Teresa Teran, article in Der Tagesspeigel
2004 Time Out, London . The Art of Love at the Arndean Gallery, Cork street, feb
2004 The Guardian newspaper, The Art of Love at the Arndean Gallery, Cork street, London feb
2004 Press Release for the exhibition at Galeria Do Poste, Rio de Janeiro by Luiz Sergio de Olivera
2004 Film by Etienne Faure Quoi l'Eternite' script by Claude Jeancolas. In the studio reading some poems from the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, July
2004 International Jewish Artist of the year Award 2004, catalogue
2004 A Season of Rimbaud in London , Catalogue introduction by Louis Benassi
2004 Aesthetica A Review of Contemporary Artists, interview with Debbie Ellison, December 04
2005 ARTLIFE,Communication for the creative mind, Volume 25,Number 1 Issue No. 266
2005 Aesthetica A review of Contemporary Artists, painting Sous le Pont' for cover of the book , march
2005 PAPER/politics an exhibition of politically & socially engaged printmaking by Josh Mac Phee, Curator 2005 Paper Politics, Introduction to the catalogue by Joseph Pentheroudakis
2005 Blog on Rimbaud, introduction by Dr Maria Luisa Stringa Italian Federation of Unesco
2005 Journal Contemporary Impressions Paper Politics Exhibition' Nov USA
2006 La Republica, article on Folate Iridescenti 2 march
2006 The Saatchi Gallery website : Interview with Debbie Ellison submitted essay
2006 Video Channel Interview with Agricola de Cologne
2006 Pittsburgh City Paper, Bill O'Driscoll, (June 21-28)
2006 La Republica Trova ROMA La cita in tasca,, December
2007 TROVAROMA Le Inaugurazioni Videofusion 1, 15 Feb
2007 Videofusion1 catalogue essay by Gabriele Perretta Feb
2007 Subat, KargART Uluslararasi Video Festivali - Kurye / Courier Sergisi March
2008 The Jersey Journal selects Close to the Edge as its Top Pick January 4
2008 The New York Times review of the cWOW exhibition by Ben Genocchio