Planetarische Bauern

Majewski’s canvases are like Fields, made with earth pigments such as ochre, green earth and red earth, rabbit glue and linen oil–used since the earliest times. The compositions are based on a grid, which is both constraining and relieving. The imaginary proximity between the limits of the rectangular painting and an abstract agrarian landscape inspired the artist to make an installation of the painted fields rising up from the ground. The assembly of those fields, painted with the earth itself, situate us between a critique of the modernist drive to put order and geometry to the land and the necessity to collaborate with it; between the drive to liberation from ancient and modern serfdom, the ideas of ownership and patriarchy and the need to look for sustainable solutions. These topics further unfold in the film: Humus with talks with farmers in Germany.