That's How It Is on This Bitch of a Earth

A long-titled stitched work with a raw, direct voice addressing the challenges and ironies of contemporary existence.

Material

Mixed media on paper

Date

2001

Museum

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
That's How It Is on This Bitch of a Earth — 2001 — Mixed media on paper — by Berend Strik

About the piece

That's How It Is on This Bitch of a Earth (2001) is a characteristically provocative title by Berend Strik — simultaneously vulgar and philosophical, colloquial and profound, addressing the nature of existence itself.

The phrase frames existence as something hard and demanding, yet said with humor and acceptance. The earth as subject connects to a long tradition in art — from Bruegel's peasant scenes to Anselm Kiefer's heaviness — of taking the material world seriously as a subject worthy of artistic attention.

Strik's transformation of earth/ground through textile interventions adds physical weight to images of the world, making visible the layers of material and meaning that constitute our environment.

Sources: Galerie Fons Welters

That's How It Is on This Bitch of a Earth — 2001 — Mixed media on paper — by Berend Strik
That's How It Is on This Bitch of a Earth
A long-titled stitched work with a raw, direct voice addressing the challenges and ironies of contemporary existence.

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