Spisovatel, básník a kurátor John K. Grande během uplynulých 25 let výrazně obohacuje kanadskou i mezinárodní uměleckou komunitu. Specializuje se na oblast umění a ekologie, ve které také vydal své zásadní publikace: Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose Books, 1994), Intertwining: Landscape, Technology, Issues, Artists (Black Rose Books, 1998), Jouer avec le feu: Armand Vaillancourt: Sculpteur engagé (Montreal: Lanctot, 2001), Art Nature Dialogues (SUNY Press, New York 2003), Dialogues in Diversity; Art from Marginal to Mainstream (Pari, Italy 2007) a Homage to Jean-Paul Riopelle (Prospect Press /Gaspereau Press, 2011).
John Grande také vydal nespočet esejí o umělcích a textů do katalogů k výstavám.
Se svými básněmi také vystupoval v Irsku, Belgii, Maďarsku, Kanadě a ve Spojených státech .
Jako spoluautor spolupracoval s Judy Garfin: Natural Disguise (Vehicule Press, Montreal, 1998), s Nils-Udo: Art with Nature (Wienand Verlag, Koln, Germany 2000, le Mouvement Intuitif; s Patrickem Dougherty and Adrian Maryniak (Atelier 340, Bruxelles 2003), Natura Humana; s Bobem Verschueren (Editions Mardaga, Brussels, 2010) a s Rogerem Rigorth (Kerber Verlag, Darmstadt, 2014).
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Author, poet and curator John K. Grande contributed extensively to the Canadian and international arts communities over the past 25 years. Specializing in art and ecology he has produced such seminal publications as Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose Books, 1994), Intertwining: Landscape, Technology, Issues, Artists (Black Rose Books, 1998),Jouer avec le feu: Armand Vaillancourt: Sculpteur engagé (Montreal: Lanctot, 2001), Art Nature Dialogues (SUNY Press, New York 2003), Dialogues in Diversity; Art from Marginal to Mainstream (Pari, Italy 2007) and Homage to Jean-Paul Riopelle (Prospect Press /Gaspereau Press, 2011). John Grande has published countless catalogue essays on artists and exhibited and read his poetry in Ireland, Belgium, Hungary, Canada and the United States.. He has co-authored Judy Garfin: Natural Disguise (Vehicule Press, Montreal, 1998), Nils-Udo: Art with Nature (Wienand Verlag, Koln, Germany 2000,, le Mouvement Intuitif; Patrick Dougherty and Adrian Maryniak (Atelier 340, Bruxelles 2003), Natura Humana; Bob Verschueren (Editions Mardaga, Brussels, 2010) and Roger Rigorth (Kerber Verlag, Darmstadt, 2014).
Among the shows curated, Earth Art features in John K. Grande's repertoire, with shows at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Canada and Van dusen Gardens, Vancouver, B.C. along with Eco-Art co-curated with Peter Selz at Pori, Finland.
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