Ecologically Inspired Art - Part 3 - Lucien den Arend

The artistic development of Lucien den Arend, a Dutch sculptor and artist who takes the landscape into remarkable consideration in his environmental projects, began with painting from nature or even perhaps with the shelters he made himself of flexible willow rods as a child.

Unlike town and open space planners, den Arend does not seek to create interesting or beneficial effects with the natural elements he uses; rather his main concern is with evoking the unexpected, and thus he gives hills, shrub plantings, reservoirs and canals the form of curves, semicircles, squares, lines and grids an exercise in practical geometry.
Extract from Topos European Landscape Magazine

Homage to El Lissitzky
Lelystad Flevo Polder the Netherlands






Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project
Barendrecht Holland




Island x-ing
Continuation of the Walburg project into the Volgerlanden






Farel
Farel School Netherlands






The Iron Pollard
Hardinxveld Giessendam Holland






den Arend's Gothic 2
Penttilä Open Air Museum Finland

For more information please visit www.denarend.com and the Penttilä Open Air Museum at www.paom.ws

Zaha Hadid does it again

Zaha Hadid's work has been widely praised and criticised and sometimes her unceasing presence in print can be overwhelming. However, I do have a soft spot for Hadid as we are both former graduates of the Inchbald School of Design. Her latest piece entitled 'Kloris’, a cluster of sculptural seating elements inspired by the shapes of flower petals, made its presence felt at Sotheby's Chatsworth Beyond the Limits exhibit 2008. When I saw Kloris displayed outdoors in the very traditional setting of Chatsworth House I felt a renewed interest and enthusiasm for her work. Whether you enjoy her projects or not Hadid's work has the status of a manifesto towards a new design language for urbanism, architecture and the world of products, but enough of that, I will let you interpret for yourself. 

Kloris at Sotheby's Chatsworth Beyond the Limits exhibit 2008

Materials : Fibregalss with chrome finish

edition: 12+2 AP

Size: h: 80 w: 649 x d: 509cm

Kloris is currently accessible to the public at the Sonnenbend gallery New York.

Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend

www.zaha-hadid.com