Reviews

A selection of reviews from over the years.

	THE TAROT BY ERICA DAVIES FREUD MUSEUM
		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. (view full version)
	VIDEO CHANNEL BY AGRICOLA DE COLOGNE
		A NEW INITIATIVE BY VIDEOCHANNEL Interview 2006 : 10 questions (view full version)
	CV/VAR INTERVIEW WITH NICK JAMES
		What is your background? Interview recorded 27.02.90 (view full version)
	INTERVIEW AVEC NOELLE BENHAMOU.
		Out there, court-métrage de Hervé Constant tiré de « Lettre d’un fou », sera présenté mardi 14 août prochain, entre 18h et 19h, au Festival du film de Portobello (Portobello Film Festival), qui se tiendra à Londres du 1er au 22 août. (view full version)
	"COMMUNICATION" BY MICHAEL ARCHER (GALERIE SAPET)
		An essay written by Michael Archer for an exhibition at Galerie Sapet – Beaux-Arts of Valence, France (view full version)
	TRIENNIAL (MAY - JUNE 2003)
		Triennial will take place in May - June 2003, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Lithuania. (view full version)
	THE CREATION OF SYMBOLS BY MADELYN FREEMAN
		Interview between the visual artist, Herve Constant and the psychotherapist Madelyn Freeman, November 98, London (view full version)
	THE POET IN PAINT BY JONATHAN LIVINGSTONE
		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. (view full version)
	THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL BY KATE SAUNDERS
		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. Paintings emerge in twilight colours; soft blue, purple, brown edged with crimson. Often they have a transient quality; a sense of passing from daylight into darkness. Constant prefers to work in this way because his vision emerges from within. Like the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, one of his greatest influences, he feels that the artist must 'make himself a seer'. To do so, he 'searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessence's'. (view full version)
	SUE HUBBARD, 1996
		"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 love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessence. Unutterable torture in which he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, in which he becomes among all men the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed one - and the supreme Savant| - For he arrives at the 'unknown'". (view full version)
	ERICA DAVIES DIRECTOR, FREUD MUSEUM,LONDON
		Herve Constant's paintings repeatedly reveal his absorbtion with the representation of the journey of the soul .This compelling search reflects Constant ' s own odyssey which has transported his origins and culture. (view full version)
	WHAT DRIVES AN EXPLORER... BY ROBIN DUTT
		It may well be a fair assumption that every genuine artist has the soul of an explorer. His map is the complexity of emotion, his grappling irons and shovels, that box of irridescent paints. What drives an explorer on is the same spirit within an artist - the desire for knowledge and through knowledge, understanding. (view full version)
	SURFACE AND SYMBOL BY DAVID COHEN
		Herve Constant is keenly aware of the gulf between the meaning of a sign and formal qualities such as its shape, colour, or scale, which get lost in the process of communication. (view full version)
	IN CONVERSATION (STUDIO, BY JOHN FURSE)
		The studio is well organised and Herve Constant's current concern is with the coming exhibition at North West London's Tricycle Gallery. The work to be shown is carefully stacked against the walls. It is important that the hanging sequence makes good sense and that what he has to say is communicated clearly. Constant is very particular and intent on leaving little to chance. (view full version)
	HERVÉ CONSTANT - A COLLECTOR'S VIEW
		The darker side of the human psyche has a power of fascination in the unexpected way in which it can surface: in a look, a gesture, a particular line or shadow on a canvas or even an omission, which surprises because it is a glimpse of a sub-text, and is sometimes at odds with the general narrative. (view full version)
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