Pieter Bruegel de Oude was a master of landscape. His village scenes and mountain and winter landscapes are etched in the collective memory. Less well known is that Bruegel drew his inspiration not only from his travels through Europe, but also from his many walks in the Pajottenland region.

In this Bruegel year, the open-air exhibition De Blik van Bruegel. Reconstructie van het landschap. Curator Stefan Devoldere invited about ten artists and architects to take a fresh look at the sloping landscape of the Pajottenland, drawing inspiration from the works of Bruegel.

Bruegel’s Gaze takes you to places Bruegel himself must have been. Like the master’s paintings, the artefacts and artworks show the layers of the everyday and typically Flemish landscape. We look at our familiar surroundings in a different way. The landscape loses its self-evidence.

As a tribute to Bruegel’s De Seizoenen, the various artworks and interventions were photographed by Michiel De Cleene in different seasons. His gaze lifts the artistic interventions of early spring over summer and captures how they forged a relationship with the landscape, nature and weather conditions.

Featuring artworks by Rotor, Filip Dujardin, Erik Dhont, Koen van de Broeck, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Bas Smets, Lois Weinberger, Landinzicht, Guillaume Bijl, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Futurefarmers, Georges Rousse and Josse De Pauw.

This book is only available in Dutch.