The exhibition Engelbrecht’s Earthly Delights offers a new look at Jheronimus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. See the iconic triptych through the eyes of contemporary artists. From digital paradises to a game-like descent into hell, Eelco Brand, Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen, SMACK, and Floris Kaayk bring the masterpiece to life in a new way.
The Museo del Prado dates the Jheronimus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights to 1490-1500. The triptych later certainly hung in the Nassau Palace in Brussels and it follows that Engelbert II, Count of Nassau and Lord of Breda between 1475 and 1504, was responsible for commissioning it. However, there is still much we do not know. The Stedelijk Museum Breda will conduct further research in the coming years, examining Engelbert’s life, the theme of Lust, and the triptych’s function at the Nassau court.
In The Birth of Landscape, Eelco Brand explores the birth of the landscape during Creation, visible when both panels are closed.
Inside the cabinet is a glass sphere, with the flat earth still shrouded in mist. On the other side, the landscape is built from the purest digital forms, projected onto paper backdrops. The work is an ode to the untouched natural landscape, without humans, a recurring theme for Brand.
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