{"id":1,"name":"admin","url":"http:\/\/www.denarend.com","description":"1943    \t\r\nBorn in Dordrecht, Holland\r\n\r\n1953\t\r\nHis family emigrates and lives in Southern California\r\n\r\n1956\t\r\nLives in Dordrecht for six months, and returns to America\r\n\r\n1962\t\r\nMoves to Zwijndrecht, on the riverside across from Dordrecht\r\n\r\n1963\t\r\nBack to Long Beach California and Studies art (ceramics) and Language (Russian) at California State University at Long Beach\r\n\r\n1965\t\r\nMeets 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\r\n\r\n1966\t\r\nStudies for a teaching degree in art at the Tilburg School of Art\r\n\r\n1967\t\r\nMakes first work composed of different units, calculating their proportions  to have the same volume\r\n\r\n1968\t\r\nReceives his first commission for a large bronze work, discoid form\r\n\r\n1969\t\r\nGraduates and enters the last year of sculpture class at the Rotterdam Art Academy\r\n\r\n1969\t\r\nFirst one man exhibition of sculpture in the office of Dicke Architects in Dordrecht\r\n\r\n1969\t\r\nTeaches at a secondary school in Zwijndrecht for two years\r\n\r\n1969\t\r\nReceives his first commission for an environmental land art project, garden and fountain, for the DSW plant in Dordrecht\r\n\r\n1970\t\r\nGraduates and receives the Rotterdam Art Foundation Threshold Prize\r\n\r\n1970\t\r\nMeets Henry Moore and his wife Irina for the first time in Forte Dei Marmi, Italy\r\n\r\n1971\t\r\nStart of membership of various organizations and government committees\r\n\r\n1971\t\r\nVisits Irina and Henry Moore at their summer house in Forte Dei Marmi\r\n\r\n1972\t\r\nbecame a member of the board of the Dutch Sculptors'Association\r\n\r\n1972\t\r\nFirst work, perpendicular cylinders 2, in which he uses a transitional stage as the final work\r\n\r\n1972\t\r\nMakes lines on the surface of curved glass planes in order to create spatial linear forms\r\n\r\n1973\t\r\nReceives a grant from the Arie Scheffer Foundation\r\n\r\n1973\t\r\nWorks in Plexiglas with Vera R\u00f6hm in Darmstadt, Germany\r\n\r\n1974\t\r\nWorks in marble in Querceta, Italy, at Henraux, where he is introduced by Henry Moore\r\n\r\n1976\t\r\nMakes first works without a closed interior, having open curved planes, called the planes, junction series\r\n\r\n1977\t\r\nIs professor of sculpture at the Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam for two years\r\n\r\n1978\t\r\nParticipates in the Tenth Sculpture Conference in Toronto, Canada\r\n\r\n1979\t\r\nSecretary of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for five years\r\n\r\n1979\t\r\nMarries Lidwien Kuster\r\n\r\n1981\t\r\nProfessor of sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag for two years\r\n\r\n1981\t\r\nMeets the glass artist Andries Copier in Delft\r\n\r\n1981\t\r\nMember an later chairman of the Stipend Committee for Artists and Architects of the Dutch Ministry of Culture for three years\r\n\r\n1982\t\r\nDesigns and builds his studio after four years of preparation\r\n\r\n1982\t\r\nTogether with Jan Jelle Stroosma he visits Truus Schr\u00f6der-Schr\u00f6der in the house that she and Gerrit Rietveld built\r\n\r\n1983\t\r\nCorresponds with Charles Biederman\r\n\r\n1983\t\r\nJoost Baljeu visits his studio for the first time\r\n\r\n1983\t\r\nChairman of the East West Forum, a sculpture symposium with Japanese and Dutch artists participating in Dordrecht, The Netherlands\r\n\r\n1983\t\r\nMeets Queen Beatrix formally at the opening of the East West Forum in Dordrecht Holland\r\n\r\n1984\t\r\nPresident of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for two years\r\n\r\n1984\t\r\nrijksgecommiteerde (second examiner) Royal Art Academy of Art, The Hague NL\r\n\r\n1984\t\r\nDesigns a bridge in Dirksland, Holland\r\n\r\n1985\t\r\nmember (treasurer) of the board of the Janjelle Stroosma Stichting (Foundation) Dordrecht NL\r\n\r\n1985\t\r\nTravels to Medellin, Colombia to meet and pick up the two adopted daughters Carmen and Julia\r\n\r\n1986\t\r\nPrincess Juliana unveils his Durrer monument, primum movens ultimum moriens in Amsterdam. Meets the Princess and Prince Bernhard\r\n\r\n1986\t\r\nFirst meeting with Donald Judd in M\u00f6nchengladbach; a year later in Eindhoven\r\n\r\n1987\t\r\nStart of yearly work in Finish Lapland, above the polar circle, working in wood again\r\n\r\n1987\t\r\nCorresponds with and visits Annie Oud, the widow of J.J. P. Oud, several years until her death\r\n\r\n1988\t\r\nTogether with Wim Smits he visits Donald Judd in Eichholteren, Switzerland\r\n\r\n1989\t\r\nMeets with Charles Biederman, in the car driving from a conference in Vlissingen to Dordrecht Holland\r\n\r\n1990\t\r\nDivorces\r\n\r\n1990\t\r\nConstructs his stainless steel work Opening the Arctic Circle in Kemij\u00f6rvi, Finnish Lapland\r\n\r\n1990\t\r\nExecutes photographic light sculpture aurora borealis on the Pyh\u00f6 Tunturi in Finland\r\n\r\n1990\t\r\nSix Dutch sculptors: van Bennekum, Glandorf, Goerres, van Loo, Schole and Wubben write a letter to Kemij\u00f6rvi attempting to discredit him, purportedly as board members of Dutch Sculptors' Association. A year later the problem was resolved with the board itself\r\n\r\n1992\t\r\nMarries Marjo Heikkinen, in Kemij\u00f6rvi\r\n\r\n1992\t\r\nIs secretary of the Dutch Sculptors' Association for a second time\r\n\r\n1992\t\r\nBirth of Oskar in Turku Finland\r\n\r\n1993\t\r\nBirth of Vincent in Zwijndrecht Holland\r\n\r\n1993\t\r\nTakes the initiative to develop a sculpture park along the river banks near Zwijndrecht\r\n\r\n1994\t\r\nParticipates in a panel discussion Konkrete Kunst und \u00f6ffentlicher Raum, Haus Dacher\u00f6den in Erfurt\r\n\r\n1994\t\r\nIs asked to submit a design for a park on the Suvantoranta in Kajaani, Finland\r\n\r\n1994\t\r\nConducts a workshop ORANJE LANDSCHAP on landscape design, studying the river Wien in Vienna Austria\r\n\r\n1995\t\r\nthe Landscape & Art Network visits land art projects of Lucien den Arend in South Holland\r\n\r\n1996\t\r\nRealizes the Drecht Riverbanks Sculpture Park which is opened on June the 5th by Queen Beatrix\r\n\r\n1996\t\r\nBirth of Vera in Zwijndrecht, Holland\r\n\r\n1997\t\r\nVisits Bulgaria in preparations of an exchange between Bulgarian and Dutch art\r\n\r\n1997\t\r\norganizes the first biennial in the sculpture park Outside In, Finnish Contemporary art\r\n\r\n1997\t\r\ndevelops his own domain on internet http:\/\/www.st-ives.net presenting the site selected art with professional artists from around the world\r\n\r\n1998\t\r\ncoordinates an exchange between Dutch and Bulgarian artists - SEA North Sea Black Sea; the first exhibition being in Varna Bulgaria\r\n\r\n1999\t\r\ncoordinates 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\r\n\r\n1999\t\r\nreceives the Bulgarian decoration in the 1st class Order of The Knight of Madara\r\n\r\n1999\t\r\nhas two one-man shows in Helsinki and Lahti, Finland \r\n\r\n2000\t\r\nleaves the Dutch Sculptors' Association\r\n\r\n2000\t\r\nVictory is removed by the populist Mayor Vreeman of the Dutch town of Zaanstad\r\n\r\n2000\t\r\nparticipates in Struktur und Form in der Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach (Structure and form in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach) in Erfurt Germany\r\n\r\n2000\t\r\nlecture - Die Erkundigung der Grenzbereiche zwischen Landschaftsarchitektur und bildende Kunst - at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Z\u00fcrich (ETH), of Z\u00fcrich Switzerland - other lecturers were Vito Acconci, Magdalena Jetelova, Dani Karavan, Andy Goldsworthy, Bernard Lassus, Peter Latz, Franco Zagari - view the invitation (pdf file)\r\n\r\n2003\t\r\nmoves with his family permanently to Penttil\u00f6 in Kangasniemi Finland\r\n\r\n2003\t\r\nsecond prize - MUOTIALA, Tampere, environmental art competition\r\n\r\n2004\t\r\naccepted as a member of the Suomen Kuvanveist\u00f6j\u00f6liitto (Association of Finnish Sculptors)\r\n\r\n2005\t\r\ncultural ambassador for Unesco - IHE Institute for Water Education ... and water became art \r\n\r\n2006\t\r\nAIESM manager for Finland \r\n\r\n2006\t\r\npermanently installs his large works on the grounds of Penttil\u00f6 in Kangasniemi Finland - establishes Penttil\u00f6 Open Air Museum\r\n\r\n2006\t\r\ntravels to Denver USA on invitation by the city and county of Denver to make a proposal for the Justice Center Campus\r\n\r\n2006\t\r\ntravels to California and visits the Watts Towers, for which he is maintaining a website - and visits the Giant Sequoias in Sequoia National Park\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\r\nLives and works in Kangasniemi and Kemij\u00f6rvi, Finland and Zwijndrecht, Holland","link":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/?author=1","slug":"admin","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e30757c888835f5520c3a456757546f3dc0bbf5289e6a5fd4ed52cc96220b4fc?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e30757c888835f5520c3a456757546f3dc0bbf5289e6a5fd4ed52cc96220b4fc?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e30757c888835f5520c3a456757546f3dc0bbf5289e6a5fd4ed52cc96220b4fc?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denarend.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}