1 Table of Content Table of Content ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered ........................................................................................................................................ 4 More than an exhibition .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Title ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Artworks Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered .................................................................................................................. 8 Loans ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2. Back to the Roots ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 3. Everybody Hurts .............................................................................................................................................................. 10 4. Fifty Shades of White.................................................................................................................................................... 11 5. We Are at War .................................................................................................................................................................. 12 6. In God We Trust (do we?) ......................................................................................................................................... 12 7. Keep Calm and Feast on ............................................................................................................................................ 13 Contemporary artists & loans ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Biographies ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Modern artists ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Contemporary artists............................................................................................................................................................. 23 Related films ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Related music .................................................................................................................................................................................. 38 The Exhibition Architecture ......................................................................................................................................................... 39 The collector’s gallery ................................................................................................................................................................. 39 On an easel ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 39 The structure: easel, display, case, table, bench, tower......................................................................................... 39 Biographies ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 40 Gaasbeek Castle ................................................................................................................................................................................... 42 Today..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 42 An eventful past ............................................................................................................................................................................. 42 A castle in Romantic neo-style ............................................................................................................................................. 42 Pictures Gaasbeek Castle .......................................................................................................................................................... 43 Pictures Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered ................................................................................................................. 45 Practical information ....................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Title ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 46 Dates ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Address ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 46 2 Admission ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Booking ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 47 Languages ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 With children ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Catalogue Feast of Fools ................................................................................................................................................................ 48 Colophon .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 49 Partners ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 Contact ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 51 3 Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered Gaasbeek Castle, 7 April 2019 to 28 July 2019 The exhibition Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered will be held from 7 April 2019 to 28 July 2019 in Gaasbeek Castle. This exhibition is part of the ‘Flemish Masters’ project of VISITFLANDERS, which is supporting Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered. Pieter Bruegel is often seen as the embodiment of Flemish identity. Why has that been so since the revival of his work around 1900? How has he grown to become an icon, an inexhaustible source of inspiration and a huge cliché? In the exhibition Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered the visitor becomes acquainted with a series of key works by modern masters and creations by contemporary artists who ‘have a thing for Bruegel’. They latch onto his themes, reinterpret them, quote him ... and thus demonstrate that his work has lost none of its relevance. The exhibition takes as its starting point ‘the great misunderstanding’, when Bruegel, in the last years of the Romantic era, was proclaimed a painter of peasant psalms, crackling snow landscapes and eternally rustling cornfields, with his roots firmly in the Flemish clay. The exhibition inquires the way in which Flemish, and by extension Belgian and international artists, handled his artistic legacy in the period between and after the wars. Hence we focus on the following artists: James Ensor, Valerius de Saedeleer, Jules De Bruycker, Gustave van de Woestyne, Frits Van den Berghe, Jean Brusselmans, Constant Permeke, Anto Carte, Otto Dix, Stijn Streuvels, August