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Lucien den Arend - sculptor - 15|12|1943 Dordrecht NL

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selected commissions and realized projects

1968/1969   

Bronze sculpture Discoid Form, Dordrecht waterworks pumping station NL

1969/1971

Garden and fountain, DSW plant, Dordrecht NL

1971 devises a concept to make a monumental concave cavity along the river Oude Maas in Zwijndrecht - 100m diameter and 15m deep - to be entered from under the ground. No horizon or surrounding structures to be visible.

1971/1973

Walburg project, Zwijndrecht NL

1971/1976

Loop, stainless steel and concrete sculpture, Capelle aan den IJssel NL

1972

Pollard willow circle, Dordrechts Museum garden NL

1973/1975

Patio, police station Groot IJsselmonde, Rotterdam NL

1974

Aluminum sculpture Gerdesia Kindergarten, Rotterdam NL

1975

Malus project, Zwijndrecht NL

1975

Stainless steel and concrete sculpture, Overschie library NL

1975/1976

Monolinears, environment and stainless steel sculpture, School de Steenenkamer, Zwijndrecht NL

1975/1976

Oriented grid, willow project, Fuik Building, Zwijndrecht NL

1976

Critics prize Dutch Theater Critics' Association, Amsterdam NL

1976/1977

p.i.l.l.s. concrete sculptures Buytenwegh de Leyens School, Zoetermeer NL

1976/1977

bilinear monoplane bronze sculpture for Drijfhout & Zn. NL

1977

Monolinear biplane, bronze sculpture, Ned Lloyd Building, Rotterdam NL

1977

s.a.i.l. stainless steel and concrete sculpture, Martin Luther King School, Maassluis NL

1977

Monolinears junction 3, stainless steel sculpture, School Het Gilde, Apeldoorn NL

1978/1982

Stainless steel and asphalt sculpture project, Maarssen NL

1978/1982

Brenda , bronze and concrete sculpture, Waddenweg Police Station, Amsterdam NL

1980

Monolinear cloud, hanging stainless steel sculpture, 'Nassau School, Christelijke school voor Leao, Ecabo and Kmbo' (now NOVA College Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL

1980/1981

Goals, weatherproof steel double-sculpture Zuilen Sports center, Utrecht NL

1980/1984

Environment/entrance area, employment office, Terneuzen, commissioned by the chief Government Architect NL

1982

Malevich Project, pollard willow project, on four islands in Dordrecht NL

1982

Stainless steel sculpture in a pond, Hengelo NL

1982/1985

Entrance area with stainless steel element, Fire Station, Amsterdam-Bijlmer NL

1982/∞

Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project environmental sculpture project with osier island, Barendrecht NL

1983

Gravitation, stainless steel sculpture|environment, Dordrecht Chamber of Commerce NL

1983/1986

2.2.3D steel sculpture, Groenekruisweg/Sportlaan, Spijkenisse NL

1983/1987

Homage to Oud and van Doesburg, perpendicular planes, constructed concrete sculpture, Marconiplein, Rotterdam NL

1984/1986

Europa, stainless steel sculpture, Europaweg, Haarlem NL

1984/1986

environment for the gardens of the Sewage Recycling Installations Horstermeer, commissioned by Zuiveringschap Amstel- en Gooiland - Hilversum NL

1984/1987

Victory, steel sculpture under the A8 bridge in Zaanstad NL

1984/1988

Gemini Tango, orange-red steel sculpture and design for the square, Oranjeplein, Zwijndrecht NL

1984/1989

Bridge and designs for a new highway a round Dirksland en Middelharnis, Provincial department of Construction of the province of Zuid-Holland NL

1985

2.2.3D2 steel sculpture, Raadhuisplein, Zwijndrecht NL

1985/1986

Homage to El Lissitzky, earth work, Test Circuit and Test center of the National Road and Transport Department, Lelystad, commissioned by the chief government architect NL

1985/1986

Mark, pollard willow project, interior garden at and commissioned by Medical center Leeuwarden NL

1985/1986

PRIMUM MOVENS ULTIMUM MORIENS stainless steel monument to Professor D. Durrer, Minervaplein, Amsterdam, commissioned by the Durrer Comité Foundation and the municipality of Amsterdam NL

1986/1987

Bridge|environment with Italian Poplar screens with red steel bridge Rijks Scholen Gemeenschap Hoorn, commissioned by the Chief Government Architect NL

1986/1987

Marconi Waltz, tapestry, head office Verenigde Bedrijven Groeneveld b.v. Dordrecht, commissioned by Architects de Vries, Lugten and Malschaert NL

1986/1989

Wave, stainless steel sculpture, Molenwijk-Zuid, Den Haag (destroyed by the municipality of Den Haag in 1990) NL

1986/1987

Homage to van Doesburg and Oud - Marconi Waltz, color proposal and enameled panels on wall, apartment building de Plantage, Rotterdam, commissioned by the owners' organization NL

1987

HIC•SALICUM•ORDO•VIAM•SECAT•JISPINAM•IN•ANGULO•ACUTO, environmental willow project NL

1987/1989

Environment with Swamp oak and water sculpture, Ambachtsplein, Hazerswoude NL

1988

portrait drawing of Ing. J.A.E. Vlielander, rentmeester of Ambachtsheerlijkheid Cromstrijen (daterend uit 1492), last rentmeester (Ambachtsheerlijkheid Cromstrijen sold to Amev) NL

1988

JFK stainless steel sculpture, John F. Kennedy School, Dordrecht NL

1988

Stainless steel sculpture, swimming pool, Katwijk aan Zee NL

1988/1990

red steel sculpture, intersection Binckhorstlaan/Mercuriusweg/ Neherkade, Den Haag (the city indefinitely postponed the erection of the sculpture and stored the parts and returned them to den Arend in 1997) NL

1988/1990

Modifiable brass sculpture for the Bank voor Nederlandse Gemeenten, Den Haag NL

1988/1990

Opening the arctic circle (avautuva napapiiri), stainless steel sculpture, Kemijärvi SF

1989

Circumstantial demarcation, attempt 2, integration/willow project with Vera Röhm, Merwestein Park, Dordrecht NL

1989/1993

Integration, environment with swamp cypresses and retaining walls, center De Rietkampen, Ede NL

1990

aurora borealis, photographic light sculpture, Pyhä Tunturi SF

1990

Sinwa, concrete sculpture, Louise de Coligny School, Dordrecht NL

1990/1992

environment, Italian poplar screens and steel sculptural elements, Guillaume de Farel School, Ridderkerk NL

1991

Tangent circles, stainless steel, Swimming and Recreation center, Venray NL

1991

Merging grids, homage to Cor Noltée, osier project, Hollandse Biesbos, Dordrecht NL

1992

De ijzeren knot, island and osier environment, Hardinxveld/Giessendam NL

1993/1994

c.y.f. stainless steel sculpture, Houten NL

1994

design for Suvantoranta Park, Kajaani SF

1996/1999

Veera, painted steel sculpture for Onkilahti Park, Vaasa SF

1997

proposal for a steel construction, municipality of Albrandswaard SF (accepted by the committee - not realized yet)

1997

stainless steel construction - rotonde - for a roundabout, Heemskerk NL

1999

stainless steel construction - Arcadian Arches - East Gate, Heerhugowaard NL

1999

proposal for the islands, Papendrecht NL (not realized)

2000/2002

x-ing - De Volgerlanden Hendrik Ido Ambacht|Zwijndrecht

2002/2003

proposal for a monumental sculpture in the water for the high velocity railway in Bleiswijk NL

2002/2003

proposal for arch/sculpture for Jacobswoude NL

2004

concrete and steel construction - spil - for a roundabout, Barendrecht NL (in cooperation with Henny Monshouwer

2004/2005

Muotiala - proposal for stainless steel constructions - Tampere Finland - second prize

2006

invited and made a proposal for the Justice Center Campus - City and County of Denver USA

2008 Invited in Lappeenranta, Finland to make an environmental sculpture in the Pappila Gardens.
2008 Red steel sculpture in Papendrecht, Holland - for the OPAM Sculpture Park.
2010 Invited and made a proposal for a sculpture for a traffic circle at the UTEP (University of El Paso), Texas.
2012 GAEA a red steel sculpture installed in Rhoon, Netherlands.
2012-2018 Evolving linear sculpture  QUISNAM VERTITUR - roundabout highway 13, 447 and 616 Kangasniemi FI

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