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"urban oasis" Urban Land Art in Ede, the Netherlands.
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project Barendrecht
The Netherlands photo©Jos Wesdijk
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project Barendrecht
The Netherlands photo©Jos Wesdijk
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project Barendrecht
The Netherlands
In 1997 the trunks of the willows
were painted white with lime. This was to celebrate
the 400th anniversary of the birth of Pieter Janszoon
Saenredam. At the same time this was the first time
the trunks were white, for after this date they would
be whitewashed every twelve and a half years. This results
in: once on the actual birthday (he was born June 9th
1697) and every other time on December 9. The reason
for the whitewashing is to evoke images of Dutch churches
from the time when Saenredam did paintings of their
interiors.
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project Barendrecht
The Netherlands
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project Barendrecht
The Netherlands
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project Barendrecht
The Netherlands (in the winter)
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project Barendrecht
The Netherlands
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project Barendrecht
The Netherlands
trajectory for Rembrandt - 2002 - curvature length 250m
- 100 Salix Alba (white willow) branches and three oaks
(the growing willows were planned to be cut back two
meters above the ground every three years).
trajectory for Rembrandt - 2002 - curvature length 250m
- 100 Salix Alba (white willow) branches and three oaks
Walburg Project 1971|1973 earth - asphalt - meandering
dike , bronze, high-tension pylon and pollard willows
- 136x50x19m Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
Walburg Project 1971|1973 earth - asphalt - meandering
dike , bronze, high-tension pylon and pollard willows
- 136x50x19m Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
Walburg Project 1971|1973 earth - asphalt - meandering
dike , bronze, high-tension pylon and pollard willows
- 136x50x19m Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
Years after the completion, the electric power company put the cables underground and the high tension pylons were removed. Because I had based my land art project on the presence of this pylon, I was given the opportunity of making a proposal for the part which should remain (see above).
Walburg Project 1971|1973 earth - asphalt - meandering
dike , bronze, high-tension pylon and pollard willows
- 136x50x19m Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
Walburg Project 1971|1973 earth - asphalt - meandering
dike , bronze, high-tension pylon and pollard willows
- 136x50x19m Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
Walburg Project 1971|1973 earth - asphalt - meandering
dike , bronze, high-tension pylon and pollard willows
- 136x50x19m Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
The Volgerlanden Project working group - a joint scheme
by the cities of Hendrik Ido Ambacht and Zwijndrecht
in The Netherlands - asked Lucien den Arend to make
a proposal for the area to the North-West of his older
Walburg Project which originated in 1971. Den Arend
decided to enlarge the already planned water reservoir
and have the meandering dike of his Walburg project
be one of its edges. In the reservoir an island in the
form of a cross was completed in 2002 - the land on
the right was taken out. Two narrow pedestrian bridges
now connect the island to the shore on the left and
right. Alnus (alder) trees will be planted along the
island's shore - they will form two crossing paths (tiendwegen).
A "tiendweg" is a road on a levee.
The "tiendwegen" (no translation yet) are located mainly
in the west of The Netherlands. The term levee-pathway
would come the closest. There are many theories about
the original function of "tiendwegen" and on the origin
of the name. A "tiendweg" is almost never "just any
road": there must always be two parallel waterways with
a long straight pathway or road on a levee between them.
2000 | 2002 - continuation of the Walburg project into
the Volgerlanden - island x-ing
2000 | 2002 - continuation of the Walburg project into
the Volgerlanden - island x-ing
island x-ing with the alder trees in 2008 -
photo©Marco de Nood
1992 - the iron pollard, maze
| de ijzeren knot, island and osier environment, Hardinxveld/Giessendam
NL
1985|1986 land art project with red steel element -
homage to El Lissitzky -
100x200x7.50m - test circuit and test center of the
national Road and Transport Department of The Netherlands
- Lelystad NL
1985|1986 land art project with red steel element -
homage to El Lissitzky -
100x200x7.50m - test circuit and test center of the
national Road and Transport Department of The Netherlands
- Lelystad NL
clearing
- drawing 100x70cm - 1990|1991 oak trees (quercus)
and various other species - 100x100m - the entrance
path is 1 Km long by 11.33m wide - Park Noorddijk Groningen
NL
The sculptor proposed using the forest to create an environmental project bringing back to memory the fashion in which the wooded land used to be cleared in the past centuries. In this way den Arend uses architectural shapes which echo the urban public space - the sides of the entrance path are to be formed by two rows of oak trees, their foliage regularly cut to a flat plane to evoke the feeling of the urban environment between the facades of buildings. The trunks would resemble a colonnade like in the architecture of classical urban environments.
oblique rows - 1984/1986
willows (Salix Alba), grass, earth and water - 10500x2200x200-400cm
- gardens of the Sewage Recycling Installations Horstermeer,
commissioned by Zuiveringschap Amstel- en Gooiland -
Hilversum NL
oblique rows - 1984/1986
willows (Salix Alba), grass, earth and water - 10500x2200x200-400cm
- gardens of the Sewage Recycling Installations Horstermeer,
commissioned by Zuiveringschap Amstel- en Gooiland -
Hilversum NL
oblique rows - 1984/1986
willows (Salix Alba), grass, earth and water - 10500x2200x200-400cm
- gardens of the Sewage Recycling Installations Horstermeer,
commissioned by Zuiveringschap Amstel- en Gooiland -
Hilversum NL
1983-86 - coated steel - 2.2.3D - Ø50cm 2400x550x697cm - Groenekruisweg/Sportlaan, Spijkenisse NL
1983-86 - coated steel - 2.2.3D - Ø50cm 2400x550x697cm - Groenekruisweg/Sportlaan, Spijkenisse NL
1983-86 - coated steel - 2.2.3D - Ø50cm 2400x550x697cm - Groenekruisweg/Sportlaan, Spijkenisse NL
homage to Oud and van Doesburg - concrete - 3X 750x750x20cm 1983|1986 - Marconiplein, Rotterdam NL
homage to Oud and van Doesburg - concrete - 3X 750x750x20cm 1983|1986 - Marconiplein, Rotterdam NL
homage to Oud and van Doesburg - concrete - 3X 750x750x20cm 1983|1986 - Marconiplein, Rotterdam NL
me in the tall grass in our forest, by the lake
In discussion with Princess Laurentien from the
Netherlands, who interviewed me in the studio of my
friend and colleague Kari Huhtamo in Helsinki.
more photo's coming (all phto's by Lucien den Arend except the ones with the swan, which is by Marco de Nood - and the Saenredam project aerial photo with the willows painted white, which is by Jos Wesdijk - both with permission if their name is mentioned as the photographer.
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