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1943 |
Born in Dordrecht,
Holland |
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1953
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His family emigrates and lives in Southern California
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1956
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Lives in Dordrecht for six months, and returns to America
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1962
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Moves to Zwijndrecht, on the riverside across from Dordrecht
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1963
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Back to Long Beach California and Studies art (ceramics)
and Language (Russian) at California State University at
Long Beach
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1965
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Meets the Dutch environmental sculptor Joop Beljon during
a sculpture symposium on the campus in Long Beach. Returns
to Holland at the end of the year
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1966
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Studies for a teaching degree in art at the Tilburg School
of Art
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1967
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Makes first work composed of different units, calculating
their proportions to have the same volume
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1968
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Receives his first commission for a large bronze work,
discoid form
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1969
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Graduates and enters the last year of sculpture class
at the Rotterdam Art Academy
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1969
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First one man exhibition of sculpture in the office of
Dicke Architects in Dordrecht
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1969
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Teaches at a secondary school in Zwijndrecht for two
years
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1969
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Receives his first commission for an environmental
land art project,
garden and
fountain, for the DSW plant in Dordrecht
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1970
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Graduates and receives the Rotterdam Art Foundation Threshold
Prize
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1970
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Meets Henry Moore and his wife Irina for the first time
in Forte Dei Marmi, Italy
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1971
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Start of membership of various organizations and government
committees
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1971
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Visits Irina and
Henry Moore at their summer house in Forte Dei Marmi
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1972
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became a member of the
board of the
Dutch Sculptors'Association
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1972
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First work, perpendicular cylinders 2, in which he uses
a transitional stage as the final work
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1972
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Makes lines on the surface of curved glass planes in
order to create spatial linear forms
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1973
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Receives a grant from the Arie Scheffer Foundation
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1973
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Works in Plexiglas with Vera Rähm in Darmstadt,
Germany
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1974
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Works in marble in Querceta, Italy, at Henraux, where
he is introduced by Henry Moore
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1976
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Makes first works without a closed interior, having open
curved planes, called the planes, junction series
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1977
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Is professor of sculpture at the Rietveld Art Academy
in Amsterdam for two years
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1978
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Participates in the Tenth Sculpture Conference in Toronto,
Canada
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1979
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Secretary of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for
five years
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1979
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Marries Lidwien Kuster
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1981
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Professor of sculpture at the
Royal Academy of Art in Den
Haag for two years
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1981
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Meets the glass artist Andries Copier in Delft, as a
member of the advisory committee of COSA (Centraal Orgaan
voor het Scheppend Ambacht)
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1981
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Member an later chairman of the Stipend Committee for
Artists and Architects of the Dutch Ministry of Culture
for three years
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| 1981-1986 |
Member of the board of Nationaal Comité Nederland
(NCN) of The Netherlands National Committee of artist members
of International Association of Art (IAA) - Association
Internationale des Arts Plastique (AIAP) |
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1982
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Designs and builds his studio after four years of preparation
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1982
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Together with Janjelle Stroosma he visits Truus
Schräder-Schräder in the house that she and
Gerrit Rietveld built
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1983
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Corresponds with Charles Biederman
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1983
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Joost Baljeu visits his studio for the first time
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1983
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Chairman of the
East West Forum, a sculpture symposium with Japanese and
Dutch artists participating in Dordrecht, The Netherlands
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1983
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Meets and accompanies
Queen Beatrix
at the opening of the East West Forum in Dordrecht Holland
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1984
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President of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for
two years
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1984
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rijksgecommiteerde (second examiner) Royal Art Academy
of Art, The Hague NL
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1984
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Designs a bridge in Dirksland, Holland
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1985
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member (treasurer) of the board of the Janjelle Stroosma
Stichting (Foundation) Dordrecht NL
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1985
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Travels to Medellin, Colombia to meet and pick up the
two adopted daughters Carmen and Julia
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1986
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Princess Juliana unveils his Durrer monument, primum
movens ultimum moriens in Amsterdam. Meets the Princess
and Prince Bernhard
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1986
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First meeting with Donald Judd in Mänchengladbach;
a year later in Eindhoven
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1987
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Start of yearly work in Finish Lapland, above the polar
circle, working in wood again
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1987
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Corresponds with- and visits Annie Oud-Dinaux, the widow
of architect J.J. P. Oud, over a period of several years
until her death. Ater having heard about his new
Zwijndrecht
Studio, she had written him to visit her and show pictures
of it.
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1988
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Together with Wim Smits he visits
Donald Judd in Eichholteren, Switzerland
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1989
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Meets with Charles Biederman, in the car driving from
a conference in Vlissingen to Dordrecht Holland
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1990
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Divorces
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1990
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Constructs his stainless steel work
Opening the Arctic Circle in Kemijärvi, Finnish
Lapland
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1990
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Executes photographic light sculpture aurora borealis
on the Pyhä Tunturi in Finland
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1990
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Six Dutch sculptors: van Bennekum, Glandorf, Goerres,
van Loo, Schole and Wubben write a letter to Kemijärvi
attempting to discredit him, purportedly as board members
of Dutch Sculptors' Association. A year later the problem
was resolved with the board itself
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1992
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Marries Marjo Heikkinen, in Kemijärvi
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1992
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Is secretary of the Dutch Sculptors' Association
for a second time
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1992
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Birth of Oskar in Turku Finland
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1993
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Birth of Vincent in Zwijndrecht Holland
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1993
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Takes the initiative to develop a sculpture park along
the river banks near Zwijndrecht
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1994
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Participates in a panel discussion Konkrete Kunst und äffentlicher
Raum, Haus Dacheräden in Erfurt
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1994
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Is asked to submit a design for a park on the river bank,
Suvantoranta, in Kajaani, Finland
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1994
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Conducts a workshop
ORANJE LANDSCHAP on landscape design, studying the river
Wien in Vienna Austria
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1995
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the
Landscape & Art Network visits land art projects
of Lucien den Arend in South Holland
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1996
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Realizes the
Drecht
Riverbanks Sculpture Park which is opened on June the
5th by Queen Beatrix
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1996
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Birth of Vera in Zwijndrecht, Holland
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1997
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Visits Bulgaria in preparations of an exchange between
Bulgarian and Dutch art
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1997
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organizes the first biennial in the sculpture park
Outside In, Finnish Contemporary art
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1997
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develops his own domain on internet
http://www.st-ives.net
presenting the site
selected art
with professional artists from around the world
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1998
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coordinates an exchange between Dutch and Bulgarian artists
- SEA North Sea Black Sea; the first
exhibition being in Varna Bulgaria
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1999
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coordinates the second exhibition, SEA (Black Sea North
Sea), which is preceded by a symposium in the Open Air Museum
OPAM
which is opened by His Majesty King Simeon II of Bulgaria
and Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
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1999
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receives the Bulgarian decoration in the
1st class Order of
The Knight of Madara (Madara Rider - Ridder van Madara)
- Awarded to people for particularly great contributions
to the consolidation of bilateral relations with Bulgaria.
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1999
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has two one-man shows in
Helsinki and
Lahti, Finland
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2000
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leaves the Dutch Sculptors' Association
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2000
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Victory is removed by the populist Mayor Vreeman
of the Dutch town of Zaanstad
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2000
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participates in
Struktur und Form in der Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach
(Structure and form in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach)
in Erfurt Germany
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2000
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lecture -
Die Erkundigung der Grenzbereiche zwischen Landschaftsarchitektur
und bildende Kunst - at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology, Zürich (ETH),
of Zürich Switzerland - other lecturers were Vito Acconci,
Magdalena Jetelova, Dani Karavan, Andy Goldsworthy, Bernard
Lassus, Peter Latz, Franco Zagari - view the
invitation (pdf file)
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2003
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moves with his family permanently to
Penttilä in Kangasniemi
Finland
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2003
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second
prize - MUOTIALA, Tampere, environmental art competition
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2004
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accepted as a member of the
Suomen Kuvanveistäjäliitto
(Association
of Finnish Sculptors)
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2005
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appointed cultural ambassador for
Unesco - IHE Institute for Water Education ... and water
became art
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2006
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AIESM manager
for Finland
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2006
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permanently installs his large works on the grounds of
Penttilä in Kangasniemi Finland - establishes
Penttilä
Open Air Museum
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2006
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travels to Denver
USA on invitation by the city and county of Denver to make
a proposal for the Justice Center Campus
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2006
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travels to California
and visits the
Watts
Towers, for which he cereated and maintains a
website - and visits the
Giant
Sequoias in Sequoia National Park
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2007
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works on his personal sculpture park and improves the
grounds at Penttilä
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2008
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joins MOD Architects design team to make a proposal for
Vantaa city about idea planning and design of thw Veromies
area - the centre of the future Aviapolis, the third centre
of Vantaa
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2009
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the University of
Goteborg, Sweden nominated the sculptor for an acting
professorship in Iron and Steel at the
Steneby location.
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| 2009 |
Is invited to make a proposal for a
sculpture on a roundabout at the UTEP (University of Texas
at El Paso) |
| 2010 |
Travels to El Paso to present his proposal. |
| 2010 |
accepted as a member of the
Mikkelin Taiteilijaseura |
| 2011 |
Participates in a
land art symposium, Naturkunst in Alzey Weinheim, Germany |
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Lives and works in Kangasniemi and Kemijärvi, Finland
and Zwijndrecht, Holland
skiing near Penttilä
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after my bath - age ±3 (drawn from a photo by the artist in the mid
sixties)