Lucien den Arend  15|12|1943 Dordrecht NL
sculptor

  after my bath - age ±3

(drawn from a photo by the artist in the mid sixties)

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biographical notes

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 Arie Scheffer Foundation
1973	Works in Plexiglas with Vera Rähm 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 Art 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 Jan Jelle 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.
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	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	has two one-man shows in Helsinki and Lahti, Finland
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	cultural ambassador for Unesco - IHE Institute for Water Education ... and water became art
2006	AIESM manager for Finland
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 is maintaining a website - and visits the Giant Sequoias in Sequoia National Park
2007	works on his personal sculpture park and improves the grounds at Penttilä
	Lives and works in Kangasniemi and Kemijärvi, Finland and Zwijndrecht, Holland

 

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