Portfolio Category: cycle route

ARCH OF HEAVEN (HUGO KAIRET) This square monument was installed at Ten Bos in 2011. Walkers can walk through the over four meter high artwork, made of stainless steel. Through various viewing windows one then has a view of the church and its surroundings. The artist directs the viewer's attention in a specific direction, just…

THE WASE WASTE MONSTER (SVEN DEGRIJSE) This iron rust-brown creature is an initiative of three teachers from SBSO Baken with the cooperation of pupils from fifteen schools.  With its eight trunks, the monster shows itself to be a real gulp.  It is designed to a giant basket for litter and roadside waste.  Volunteers and youth…

LOUIS PAUL BOON (FRENCH HEIRBAUT) This statue, flanked by striking texts, was placed on this square in 2003 on the occasion of 25 years of C.C. Boontje. It is a realistic portrait of an exceptional personality. An innovator who "kicks people's conscience into gear. His literary talent and social commitment, his perspicacity and mildness, his…

WOODEN SHOE MONUMENT (HERMAN VAN SNICK) On the occasion of 700 years of Nieuwkerken, in 1994, the monument was erected with 700 clogs. Each year one more wooden shoe would be added. This work of art is a tribute to an age-old craft in Nieuwkerken in which, a century ago, more than three thousand workers…