portrait of webmaster | sculptor, Lucien den Arend
the SCULPTOR The sculptor Lucien den Arend has lived and worked as a
sculptor in the United States, The Netherlands and in Finland.
In 2006 he set up his own sculpture
park, Penttilä Open Air Museum (POAM).
His sculptures have been installed on the fields and forest around his house
and studio in
Kangasniemi, Finland. Nearby, in the municipality of Haukivuori he is
setting up an international sculpture park FOAM (Finnish Open Air Museum)
with sculptures by sculptors from around the world. In the summer of 2005
the first symposium took place -REDUCTIVE
ABSTRACTION Less is more again. Six sculptors from Turkey, Bulgaria, the
United States, Belgium and Holland participated and made sculptures which
are now presented on the grounds of FOAM and Saksala
ArtRadius Art Center.
In the early seventies the sculptor became a member of the Dutch
Sculptors' Association and was asked to join the board. He was twice
secretary and president of the association for about fifteen years, and a
member of the board for a total of twenty two years. In 2003 he and his
family moved to Finland where he now has a studio next to his home in the
middle of the vast forests of the Lake District. He is now a member of the Finnish
Association of Sculptors. Around his home, an old manor, his sculptures
are installed - in what used to be its gardens.
See his photographs of Moscow on a walk in Moscow
on this site
and his
TRAVELS - WALKS IN MOSCOW on his personal sculpture site.