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Lucien den Arend - sculptor - 15|12|1943 Dordrecht NL
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1943 |
Born in Dordrecht, Holland |
1953 |
His family emigrates and lives in Southern California |
1956 |
Lives in Dordrecht for six months, and returns to America |
1962 |
Moves to Zwijndrecht, on the riverside across from Dordrecht |
1963 |
Back to Long Beach California and Studies art (ceramics) and Language (Russian) at California State University at Long Beach |
1965 |
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 |
1966 |
Studies for a teaching degree in art at the Tilburg School of Art |
1967 |
Makes first work composed of different units, calculating their proportions to have the same volume |
1968 |
Receives his first commission for a large bronze work, discoid form |
1969 |
Graduates and enters the last year of sculpture class at the Rotterdam Art Academy |
1969 |
First one man exhibition of sculpture in the office of Dicke Architects in Dordrecht |
1969 |
Teaches at a secondary school in Zwijndrecht for two years |
1969 |
Receives his first commission for an environmental land art project, garden and fountain, for the DSW plant in Dordrecht |
1970 |
Graduates and receives the Rotterdam Art Foundation Threshold Prize |
1970 |
Meets Henry Moore and his wife Irina for the first time in Forte Dei Marmi, Italy |
1971 |
Start of membership of various organizations and government committees |
1971 |
Visits Irina and Henry Moore at their summer house in Forte Dei Marmi |
1972 |
became a member of the board of the Dutch Sculptors'Association |
1972 |
First work, perpendicular cylinders 2, in which he uses a transitional stage as the final work |
1972 |
Makes lines on the surface of curved glass planes in order to create spatial linear forms |
1973 |
Receives a grant from the Ary Scheffer Foundation to work in Germany and Italy |
1973 |
Works in Plexiglas with Vera Röhm in Darmstadt, Germany |
1974 |
Works in marble in Querceta, Italy, at Henraux, where he is introduced by Henry Moore |
1976 |
Makes first works without a closed interior, having open curved planes, called the planes, junction series |
1977 |
Is professor of sculpture at the Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam for two years |
1978 |
Participates in the Tenth Sculpture Conference in Toronto, Canada |
1979 |
Secretary of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for five years |
1979 |
Marries Lidwien Kuster |
1981 |
Professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag for two years |
1981 |
Meets the glass artist Andries Copier in Delft, as a member of the advisory committee of COSA (Centraal Orgaan voor het Scheppend Ambacht) |
1981 |
Member an later chairman of the Stipend Committee for Artists and Architects of the Dutch Ministry of Culture for three years |
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) |
1982 |
Designs and builds his studio after four years of preparation |
1982 |
Together with Janjelle Stroosma he visits Truus Schräder-Schräder in the house that she and Gerrit Rietveld built |
1983 |
Corresponds with Charles Biederman |
1983 |
Joost Baljeu visits his studio for the first time |
1983 |
Chairman of the East West Forum, a sculpture symposium with Japanese and Dutch artists participating in Dordrecht, The Netherlands |
1983 |
Meets and accompanies Queen Beatrix at the opening of the East West Forum in Dordrecht Holland |
1984 |
President of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for two years |
1984 |
rijksgecommiteerde (second examiner) Royal Art Academy of Art, The Hague NL |
1984 |
Designs a bridge in Dirksland, Holland |
1985 |
member (treasurer) of the board of the Janjelle Stroosma Stichting (Foundation) Dordrecht NL |
1985 |
Travels to Medellin, Colombia to meet and pick up the two adopted daughters Carmen and Julia |
1986 |
Princess Juliana unveils his Durrer monument, primum movens ultimum moriens in Amsterdam. Meets the Princess and Prince Bernhard |
1986 |
First meeting with Donald Judd in Mänchengladbach; a year later in Eindhoven |
1987 |
Start of yearly work in Finish Lapland, above the polar circle, working in wood again |
1987 |
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. |
1987 |
external committee member final exams - Rijksgecommitteerde for Royal Academy of Art - The Hague NL |
1988 |
Together with Wim Smits he visits Donald Judd in Eichholteren, Switzerland |
1989 |
Meets with Charles Biederman, in the car driving from a conference in Vlissingen to Dordrecht Holland |
1990 |
Divorces |
1990 |
Constructs his stainless steel work Opening the Arctic Circle in Kemijärvi, Finnish Lapland |
1990 |
Executes photographic light sculpture aurora borealis on the Pyhä Tunturi in Finland |
1990 |
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 |
1992 |
Marries Marjo Heikkinen, in Kemijärvi |
1992 |
Is secretary of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for a second time |
1992 |
Birth of Oskar in Turku Finland |
1993 |
Birth of Vincent in Zwijndrecht Holland |
1993 |
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1993 |
Takes the initiative to develop a sculpture park along the river banks near Zwijndrecht |
1994 |
Participates in a panel discussion Konkrete Kunst und äffentlicher Raum, Haus Dacheräden in Erfurt |
1994 |
Is asked to submit a design for a park on the river bank, Suvantoranta, in Kajaani, Finland |
1994 |
Conducts a workshop ORANJE LANDSCHAP on landscape design, studying the river Wien in Vienna Austria |
1995 |
the Landscape & Art Network visits land art projects of Lucien den Arend in South Holland |
1996 |
Realizes the Drecht Riverbanks Sculpture Park which is opened on June the 5th by Queen Beatrix |
1996 |
Birth of Vera in Zwijndrecht, Holland |
1997 |
Visits Bulgaria in preparations of an exchange between Bulgarian and Dutch art |
1997 |
organizes the first biennial in the sculpture park Outside In, Finnish Contemporary art |
1997 |
develops his own domain on internet http://www.st-ives.net presenting the site selected art with professional artists from around the world |
1998 |
coordinates an exchange between Dutch and Bulgarian artists - SEA North Sea Black Sea; the first exhibition being in Varna Bulgaria |
1999 |
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 |
1999 |
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. |
1999 |
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2000 |
leaves the Dutch Sculptors' Association |
2000 |
Victory is removed by the populist Mayor Vreeman of the Dutch town of Zaanstad |
2000 |
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 |
2000 |
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) |
2003 |
moves with his family permanently to Penttilä in Kangasniemi Finland |
2003 |
second prize - MUOTIALA, Tampere, environmental art competition |
2004 |
accepted as a member of the Suomen Kuvanveistäjäliitto (Association of Finnish Sculptors) |
2005 |
appointed cultural ambassador for Unesco - IHE Institute for Water Education ... and water became art |
2006 |
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2006 |
permanently installs his large works on the grounds of Penttilä in Kangasniemi Finland - establishes Penttilä Open Air Museum |
2006 |
travels to Denver USA on invitation by the city and county of Denver to make a proposal for the Justice Center Campus |
2006 |
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 |
2007 |
works on his personal sculpture park and improves the grounds at Penttilä |
2008 |
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2009 |
the University of Goteborg, Sweden nominated the sculptor for an acting professorship in Iron and Steel at the Steneby location. |
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 |
2013 |
Participates in the Waste Material Mask Workshop in Izmir, Turkey. |
2013 |
presentation and public lecture at zlg events courtyard - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
2015 |
participates in Moscow Biennale special project, Moscow, Russia. |
2015-16 |
participates in "Présence Construite de la sculpture à l'architecture" in Topographie de l'art - Paris France. |
2012-18 |
realizes QUISNAM VERTITUR Evolving linear shape - a roundabout sculpture in Kangasniemi, Finland. |
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Lives and works in Kangasniemi and Kemijärvi, Finland and Zwijndrecht, Holland skiing near Penttilä |
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