'A lifetime is too short to fully understand nature. Understanding comes gradually, through reading it, through encounters and personal experiences.' By focusing on a selection of projects, Erik Dhont offers new insights into garden art. Each design serves as a place of representation of certain values, a place of experimentation where human relationships thrive in their own time and space. A place that is passed on and changes shape. May we communicate to everyone the desire to plan, cultivate and care for a little piece of this world.
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Erik Dhont is a landscape architect based in Brussels. He founded his office in 1989 and has designed numerous private and public projects in Europe and abroad. In 1997, he designed a park for the fashion designer Dries Van Noten. In 2003 he started to work on the garden project for Baron and Baroness Guy Ullens de Schooten. In 2014, he designed the garden for the Picasso Museum in Paris for its reopening. In 2013, Erik Dhont curated the Belgian pavilion at L'Art du Jardin, an international exhibition on garden and landscape design at the Grand Palais in Paris. In 2014, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels devoted an exhibition to Erik Dhont's conceptual landscape models, in dialogue with drawings of the early twentieth-century landscape designer Jean Canneel-Claes. His portfolio includes numerous projects of different scale: gardens, farmyards, urban planning, landscape restoration.
