Cycle route BRUEGEL’S EYE (long version)

'Winter landscape' information panel

Information panel with image of the painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder: "Winter landscape". Some claim that the church of Dilbeek is depicted in this painting.

Rotor - Visitor Pavilion

The visitor pavilion for 'Through the Eyes of Bruegel' is discreetly integrated into its surroundings. Rotor uses a massive piece of Thuja hedge 25m long, 3m wide and 4m high as a facade, and pierces through it: the entrance to the pavilion. The conservatory is largely made up of materials from renovations. The pavilion is rather simple, but still also surprising. Are there people walking on top of the hedge?

Erik Dhont - (Re) construction

On a demarcated strip of land, Eric Dhondt creates several installations to attract the fauna and flora that used to grow here. With a sustainable vision, Erik Dhont strives for maximum results with minimal intervention. The existing watercourse will be widened so that the water will regain its space. The wetting of the surrounding areas is intended to enhance the botanical world. A succession of open and closed zones increases the dynamics and provides orientation, viewing and rest points during the walk.

Koen van den Broek - Exit

Koen Van den Broek uses his painting Exit to place a three-dimensional installation under one of the 17 bridges of the railway viaduct. Through a door, the viewer can view a fictitious landscape that contains both urban and natural elements.

Gijs Van Vaerenbergh - Study for a windmill

The architectural duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh designed a windmill made of reinforced steel, inspired by Bruegel's line drawings. In several of Pieter Bruegel's paintings and engravings, windmills feature prominently, such as in The Procession to Calvary in 1568. The light construction represents the earlier relationship between the productive landscape and the village character that has long since disappeared. The work stands in an open landscape and is visible from a distance.

Office and Bas Princen - Model for a Tower

The installation consists of a light circular structure made of aluminium in a dense forest environment. By juxtaposing a still life - photographs of a number of Bruegel paintings - and the silent nature, the visitor enters an intermediate space where photograph and reality merge almost seamlessly.

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen is internationally known for its idiosyncratic architectural practice in which creations and theoretical projects stand side by side. Their projects are of a deceptive simplicity, with abundant space, and firmly anchored in architectural theory. OFFICE brings architecture back to its essence and its most original form. For the last ten years, OFFICE has been working with photographer Bas Princen.

Filip Dujardin - Artifact 1

A gigantic rock appears at an unexpected spot after a bend in the path. Photographer Filip Dujardin takes typical elements from Bruegel's paintings and places them, magnified, in the landscape.

Info panel Bruegel

Don't be suprised If the top of the tower on this info panel looks familiar. The top is deliberately reminiscent of the Roman Colosseum, which Christians of the time saw as a symbol of both hubris and persecution. Bruegel had visited Rome in 1552–1553.

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Land in Sight - Children's games

Pieter Bruegel's Children's Games inspired Landinzicht, a landscape architecture agency in Brussels, to design a playground in the 'birth orchard'. The playground consists of objects from the landscape: car tyres, bales of hay, bathtubs and containers, and sheep are all integrated. It is an ode to playing outside in a symbolic location. Indeed, the 'birth orchard' symbolises the hope that every child can grow up in a healthy, green and child-friendly community.

Lois Weinberger - Kuh

Weinberger found inspiration for KUH (the German word for cow) from the Red Breed, a cattle breed from West Flanders. The realistic cow in painted aluminium stands at the edge of a small plot with a view of a meadow with real black and white-flecked cows. As such, the sculpted cow is the odd one out. In any case, it is not standing in the meadow, but in the built-up area, a nod to the subtly critical aspect that Bruegel often infused into his paintings.

Futurefarmers (US) - Open Field

Future Farmers, together with farmer Tijs and Li Mester, sow a field with different variations of old(er) and/or rare(r) grain species, which were grown in the Pajottenland at the time of Bruegel. Together, they have created a harvest festival that aims to shorten the chain between the farmer and the buyer of local products such as bread. The driving force behind this collective of American artists is Amy Franceschini.

Georges Rousse - Sint-Anna-Pede 2019

The installation consists of a semi-transparent construction of wooden slats. This 'house' is partially painted, apparently without any form or purpose. It is a kind of optical illusion that lasts as long as the right point of view is found, in which the image unfolds. All the painted fragments together form one large circle, which can only be seen from a certain angle.

Filip Dujardin - Panorama

Photographer Filip Dujardin exhibits a panorama in the church of Sint-Anna, consisting of photographs of the Pajotten landscape. In so doing, Filip Dujardin creates a fictional landscape, just like Bruegel did by bringing together elements from different landscapes in one painting.