Jutta Koether
Beschrijving
Tent. Berlijn, Galerie Buchholz, 16-09-2016, 22-10-2016. - Kunstenaarsboek bij de tentoonstelling van de Duitse kunstenares Jutta Koether (Keulen 1958). - In many European languages, painting is a feminine noun (die Malerei, de schilderkunst, la peinture, la pittura, la pintura,). Accordingly, allegorical portrayals from the 16th century personify it as a female figure who seduces the painter, always a man, into devoting himself to her, body and soul. But how can women painters position themselves within this erotic mise-en-scène, which also imagines the act of painting as one of male procreation, implying their exclusion from it? As Jutta Koether shows in Zodiac Nudes, they can do it by assimilating the position of the “Bad Dads”, as she once called them, in order to set up their own painterly system (monochrome red pictures) that radically calls itself into question, expanding and reaffirming itself, over and over.