Bruegel’s Eye: Reconstructing the Landscape
De Blik van Bruegel: Reconstructie van het landschap
Stefan Devoldere, Manfred Sellink, Leen Huet, Katrien Lichtert, Marc Jacobs, Michiel Dehaene, Joachim Declerck, Bas Smets
Stichting Kunstboek, 2019
€29,95
In 2019 it will be 450 years since Pieter Bruegel the Elder died. The world-famous painter lived in Brussels and came to the ‘Pajottenland’ to paint and gain inspiration. The municipality of Dilbeek celebrates this with an open-air exhibition with interventions by internationally renowned artists and designers. The exhibition catapults Bruegel to the 21st century. The spectator follows the eye of the painter when he makes his impressive landscape paintings. The chapel of Sint-Anna-Pede and the watermill of Sint-Gertrudis-Pede, two monuments painted by Bruegel, form the starting and resting point for a walk along fifteen installations. Fifteen artists, designers and architects make a trail through the landscape that inspired Bruegel. They make pavilions, structures, plantations, landscape figures, a story, an installation … They do something with the place, play with the perception of the space, work disorienting or help to focus attention properly. They often create new, unexpected environments. With works by Rotor, Filip Dujardin, Koen van den Broek, Erik Dhont, KGDVS & Bas Pincen Office, Bas Smets, Lois Weinberger, Landinzicht, Guillaume Bijl, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Futurefarmers, Georges Rousse and Josse De Pauw. The curator is Stefan Devoldere, professor and dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Art at Hasselt University.
ISBN: 9789058566232
