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Land Art, Sculpture & Site-Specific Art
Land art, environmental projects and site specific sculptures as well as freestanding sculpture - all urban art projects - have been the main areas in which I have been working during my career as a sculptor. I have been doing mainly site specific art in the public space. My work represents my geometric and mathematical approach to sculpture as well as to environmental art.
My sculpture, and also my land art are based on constructive principles. In the south-west of Holland I have designed and made a highway bridge. As a maker of art in the public domain, I am a sculptor of urban art. In the early nineties I installed a twenty meter long stainless steel sculpture, which I called Opening the Arctic Circle, in Kemijärvi, in Finnish Lapland; according to my knowledge this is the largest public sculpture north of the Polar Circle. In the city of Vaasa, in the west of Finland, I installed a monumental red steel sculpture, Veera. For the Finnish city Kajaani I designed a park - the Suvanto Puisto - which was never executed. The plans and representational drawings are in the collection of the Kajaani Taide Museo (Kajaani Art Museum).
As the spokesman of the Dutch Sculptors' Association I was co-organizer of this manifestation in Dordrecht, the Netherlands from 1982 to 1984. The symposium, East West Forum was a confrontation between six Japanese and six Dutch sculptors.
To show my urban
sculptures and land art projects I have made
cities pages on this site which list the
site specific public sculpture and environmental works. As a sculptor
of
public sculpture in the urban space, I have made sculptures inside
and outside of public buildings, on
roundabouts, gardens and more remote locations of more than fifty
five
cities. Since not all my proposals have been accepted, I wanted
to show them on these pages also. A recent (2012) proposal was made
for
Changchun sculpture Park in China. Not having my sculpture accepted
only means that works by colleagues were more appropriate at the
time. I designed and built my
studio
in Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands.
I now live and work at
Penttilä in Kangasniemi,
Finland - and recently presented a
proposal for a sculpture on a traffic circle at the University of Texas
at El Paso.
sculpture park
In the spring of 2006 I installed my large sculptures and constructions
around our house and my studios in Finland - this permanent exhibition,
called POAM sculpture park (Penttilä Open Air Museum) is located
in the forests and hills around Penttilä Estate.

















by Lucien den Arend
MORE ABOUT LAND ART AND SITE SPECIFIC SCULPTURE
status quo site specific sculpture
circumstantial demarcation - with Vera Röhm
in retrospect
- Kajaani Museum of Art
texts
the cities pages on this web
studios
see works under construction
in 2012 I started a section with
video films of land art and site specific sculpture either under construction
or after installation.
the planting
of trajectory for Rembrandt - 2002 - curvature length 250m - 100 Salix
Alba (white willow) branches and three oaks
categorizing in forms - another approach
The academic approach
towards specifying different
forms of art is by way of subdivision in terms of art history -
terms laid down in the course of the study of art history - such as
periods, movements, styles or various other fields into which art has
been categorized.
But one can also take a step backward and look
at only the forms in which art, and in this case my own sculpture, manifests
itself. I have no preference for any particular material, technique
or form of presentation. This results in a variety of topics into which
the work can be subdivided. Although I call all my works sculpture,
and in fact they are, it is sometimes much more clear to classify these
works under different - more obvious, down to earth - categories -
forms in which his sculpture manifests
itself:
islands
gardens
forests|trees
mazes|labyrinths
patios|courtyards
objects
A broad scope of my work is presented
in different categories.
You can view some of my one man
exhibitions at
Galleria Sculptor
in Helsinki Finland and at
Galleria Nuovo in
Lahti Finland.
In the vicinity of my birthplace, Dordrecht, I
have created and organized the Open Air Museum
OPAM.
I present many of my colleagues on
StIvesNet
selected-art
where also I have a home page. My cv/résumé
is an extensive curriculum vitæ with links to it's many items.
The cities
pages present my
site specific-public
sculptures and projects in various municipalities in Finland, NL
and other countries where my work has been installed in the public space.
Some of my landscape works
have the maze as inspiration. One
maze
is in the Dutch village of Hardinxveld Giessendam.
One of my
sculptures for a roundabout can
be visited on his domain about the subject of art and roundabouts -
rotonde is a monumental roundabout sculpture for Heemskerk.
My encounters with colleagues and personalities in the field of
the arts are documented and presented -
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands,
Henry Moore,
Andries Copier, Truus
Schröder Schräder,
Kari Huhtamo, Jorma
Hautala, Matti Peltokangas, Mark di Suvero,
Christo and Jeanne
Claude and Donald Judd.
During the sixties I made
water colors
and was mentioned as one of Holland's foremost water colorists in
the Pieter Scheen Lexicon of Dutch artists born between 1750 and 1950.
This was very flattering, because I am certain that there are other
water colorists much better than I am.
Geometrie mit Kopfweiden
- Basler Zeitung 26|05|2001 by Marie Luise Blatter - as
(pdf file)
or (HTML document)
BLOG a weblog in retrospect
site specific
sculpture and
land art
"On various locations mainly in Europe - Finland, Germany
and Holland one can find
site specific
SCULPTURE including
LAND ART and environmental
LANDSCAPE
designs by the sculptor -
texts by Lucien den Arend
and texts by others about his work." Read the article in
Basler
Magazin 21 - Basler Zeitung 121 (pdf version with illustrations)
- LANDART Geometrie
mit Kopfweiden (HTML version)
lectures
Die Erkundigung der Grenzbereiche
zwischen Landschaftsarchitektur und bildende Kunst - the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Zürich
(ETH) Switzerland - other lecturers were Vito Acconci, Magdalena
Jetelova, Dani Karavan, Andy Goldsworthy, Bernard Lassus, Peter Latz,
Franco Zagari - the
invitation (pdf file)
an exhibition by guest curator Queen
Beatrix of the Netherlands
De Voorstelling - her presence at the opening of the 1999
Keukenhof
Bulgarian decoration
in the 1st class Order of The Knight of Madara
manifest - the art economists no
longer have the sole power to manipulate art history
Finland experience
potential projects and applications
Having made many projects
over the last thirty five years, there are the effects of time -
reconstructions - indifference - up to
a populist mayor - taking a
heavy
toll
on some works.
"if you would like to discuss a subject with the
sculptor, e-mail him and I will respond within a day."
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