{"id":2,"date":"2007-12-22T06:50:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-02T00:52:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T08:52:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1943    <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Born in
\n Dordrecht<\/a>, Holland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1953<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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His family emigrates and lives in Southern California<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1956<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Lives in Dordrecht for six months, and returns to America<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1962<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Moves to Zwijndrecht, on the riverside across from Dordrecht<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1963<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Back to Long Beach California and Studies art (ceramics) and Language (Russian) at California State University at Long Beach<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1965<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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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<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1966<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Studies for a teaching degree in art at the Tilburg School of Art<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1967<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Makes first work composed of different units, calculating their proportions  to have the same volume<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1968<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Receives his first commission for a large bronze work, discoid form<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1969<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Graduates and enters the last year of sculpture class at the Rotterdam Art Academy<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1969<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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First one man exhibition of sculpture in the office of Dicke Architects in Dordrecht<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1969<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Teaches at a secondary school in Zwijndrecht for two years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1969<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Receives his first commission for an environmental land art<\/a> project, garden and fountain, for the DSW plant in Dordrecht<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1970<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Graduates and receives the Rotterdam Art Foundation Threshold Prize<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1970<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Meets Henry Moore and his wife Irina for the first time in Forte Dei Marmi, Italy<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1971<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Start of membership of various organizations and government committees<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1971<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Visits Irina and
\n
\n Henry Moore<\/a> at their summer house in Forte Dei Marmi<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1972<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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became a member of the
\n board<\/a> of the Dutch Sculptors'Association<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1972<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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First work, perpendicular cylinders 2, in which he uses a transitional stage as the final work<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1972<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Makes lines on the surface of curved glass planes in order to create spatial linear forms<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1973<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Receives a grant from the Arie Scheffer Foundation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1973<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Works in Plexiglas with Vera Röhm in Darmstadt, Germany<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1974<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Works in marble in Querceta, Italy, at Henraux, where he is introduced by Henry Moore<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1976<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Makes first works without a closed interior, having open curved planes, called the planes, junction series<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1977<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Is professor of sculpture at the Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam for two years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1978<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Participates in the Tenth Sculpture Conference in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1979<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Secretary of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for five years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1979<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Marries Lidwien Kuster<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1981<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Professor of sculpture at the
\n Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag<\/a> for two years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1981<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Meets the glass artist Andries Copier in Delft<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1981<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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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<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1982<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Designs and builds his studio after four years of preparation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1982<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Together with Jan Jelle Stroosma he visits Truus
\n
\n Schröder-Schröder<\/a> in the house that she and Gerrit Rietveld built<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1983<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Corresponds with Charles Biederman<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1983<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Joost Baljeu visits his studio for the first time<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1983<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Chairman of the East West Forum, a sculpture symposium with Japanese and Dutch artists participating in Dordrecht, The Netherlands<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1983<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Meets Queen Beatrix formally at the opening of the East West Forum in Dordrecht Holland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1984<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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President of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for two years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1984<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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rijksgecommiteerde (second examiner) Royal Art Academy of Art, The Hague NL<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1984<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Designs a bridge in Dirksland, Holland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1985<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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member (treasurer) of the board of the Janjelle Stroosma Stichting (Foundation) Dordrecht NL<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1985<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Travels to Medellin, Colombia to meet and pick up the two adopted daughters Carmen and Julia<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1986<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Princess Juliana unveils his Durrer monument, primum movens ultimum moriens in Amsterdam. Meets the Princess and Prince Bernhard<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1986<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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First meeting with Donald Judd in Mönchengladbach; a year later in Eindhoven<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1987<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Start of yearly work in Finish Lapland, above the polar circle, working in wood again<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1987<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Corresponds with and visits Annie Oud, the widow of J.J. P. Oud, several years until her death<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1988<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Together with Wim Smits he visits
\n Donald Judd<\/a> in Eichholteren, Switzerland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1989<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Meets with Charles Biederman, in the car driving from a conference in Vlissingen to Dordrecht Holland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1990<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Divorces<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1990<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Constructs his stainless steel work
\n Opening the Arctic Circle<\/a> in Kemijärvi, Finnish Lapland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1990<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Executes photographic light sculpture aurora borealis on the Pyhö Tunturi in Finland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1990<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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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<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1992<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Marries Marjo Heikkinen, in Kemijärvi<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1992<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Is secretary of the Dutch Sculptors' Association
\n
\n for a second time<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1992<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Birth of Oskar in Turku Finland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1993<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Birth of Vincent in Zwijndrecht Holland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1993<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Takes the initiative to develop a sculpture park along the river banks near Zwijndrecht<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1994<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Participates in a panel discussion Konkrete Kunst und öffentlicher Raum, Haus Dacheröden in Erfurt<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1994<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Is asked to submit a design for a park on the Suvantoranta in Kajaani, Finland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1994<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Conducts a workshop ORANJE LANDSCHAP<\/a> on landscape design, studying the river Wien in Vienna Austria<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1995<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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the
\n Landscape & Art Network visits land art projects<\/a> of Lucien den Arend in South Holland<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1996<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Realizes the
\n Drecht Riverbanks Sculpture Park<\/a> which is opened on June the 5th by Queen Beatrix<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1996<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Birth of Vera in Zwijndrecht, Holland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1997<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Visits Bulgaria in preparations of an exchange between Bulgarian and Dutch art<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1997<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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organizes the first biennial in the sculpture park Outside In<\/a>, Finnish Contemporary art<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1997<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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develops his own domain on internet
\n http:\/\/www.st-ives.net<\/a> presenting the site
\n selected art<\/a> with professional artists from around the world<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1998<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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coordinates an exchange between Dutch and Bulgarian artists – SEA North Sea Black Sea; the first
\n
\n exhibition<\/a>
\n being in Varna Bulgaria<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1999<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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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<\/a> which is opened by His Majesty King Simeon II of Bulgaria and Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1999<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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receives the Bulgarian decoration in the 1st class Order of The Knight of Madara<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1999<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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has two one-man shows in
\n Helsinki<\/a>
\n and Lahti<\/a>, Finland <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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leaves the Dutch Sculptors' Association<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\n Victory<\/a>
\n is removed by the populist Mayor Vreeman of the Dutch town of Zaanstad<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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participates in
\n Struktur und Form in der Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach<\/a> (Structure and form in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach) in Erfurt Germany<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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lecture –
\n Die Erkundigung der Grenzbereiche zwischen Landschaftsarchitektur und bildende Kunst<\/a> – at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETH<\/a>), of Zürich Switzerland – other lecturers were Vito Acconci, Magdalena Jetelova, Dani Karavan, Andy Goldsworthy, Bernard Lassus, Peter Latz, Franco Zagari – view the
\n invitation (pdf file)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2003<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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moves with his family permanently to
\n Penttilä<\/a> in Kangasniemi Finland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2003<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\n second prize – MUOTIALA, Tampere, environmental art competition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2004<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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accepted as a member of the
\n Suomen Kuvanveistöjöliitto<\/a> (Association of Finnish Sculptors<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2005<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

cultural ambassador for
\n Unesco – IHE Institute for Water Education … and water became art
\n <\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2006<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\n AIESM manager for Finland
\n <\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2006<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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permanently installs his large works on the grounds of Penttilä in Kangasniemi Finland – establishes
\n Penttilä Open Air Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2006<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\n travels<\/a> to Denver USA on invitation by the city and county of Denver to make a proposal for the Justice Center Campus<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2006<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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travels<\/a> to California and visits the
\n Watts Towers<\/a>, for which he is maintaining a website – and visits the Giant Sequoias<\/a> in Sequoia National Park<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n 2007<\/td>\nworks on his personal sculpture park and improves the grounds at Penttilä<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Lives and works in Kangasniemi and Kemijärvi, Finland and Zwijndrecht, Holland<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}