Seasons and Sacraments demonstrates Jutta Koether's distinct and powerful style and is inspired by two important series of paintings by the 17th century French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594 1665). Koether reinterprets The Seven Sacraments as a series of dynamic installations. Confirmation presents everyday objects encased in clear liquid acrylic, attached to vast sheets of glass; while Baptism is represented by a painted canvas featuring racing car driver Sebastian Vettel rather than a scene from classical antiquity. Based in Berlin and New York, Jutta Koether is currently a professor at the Hochschule fr bildende Knste Hamburg. Recent exhibitions include the Whitney and Sao Paulo Biennials, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm and the VanAbbemuseum, Eindhoven. Seasons and Sacraments is her largest exhibition in the UK to date and coincides with her inclusion the Tate Modern exhibition A Bigger Splash.

Jutta Koether - Seasons and Sacraments

Arts & Photography

Sanders, Jay

et.al.

Jutta Koether

Individual Artists

Hardcover. Gray cloth-covered boards with title and illustration debossed in black; no dust jacket as issued. Paintings, installations and additional works by Kai Althoff. Text (in German and English) by Bernd Koehler, Anke Kempkes, Jutta Koether and Michaela Eichwald. Includes a biography and bibliography. 198 pp., with 67 four-color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations. 9-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches.

Kai Althoff: Gestures and Expressions (English and German Edition)

Schafhausen, Nicolaus

Michaela Eichwald

History & Criticism

Lukas & Sternberg

Many contemporary artworks evoke the human figure: consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig, or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary, which embraces anthropomorphism as in the works of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison. This book brings together contributions from the eponymous conference, all of which seek to speculate on the reasons as to why, since the turn of the millennium, we have encountered so many artworks that tend to reconcile Minimalism with suggestions of the human figure. It proposes that this new artistic convention becomes rather questionable when discussed in the light of Franco Berardi's theory of semiocapitalism―a power technology that aims squarely at our human resources. The participants of this conference were asked to offer possible explanations for this wide acceptance of anthropomorphism―could it be that this is a manifestation of the increasingly desperate desire for art to have agency?
Contributors Ina Blom, Oliver Brokel, Caroline Busta, Stefan Deines, Hal Foster, Stefanie Heraeus, Jutta Koether, Magdalena Nieslony, Michael Sanchez
Institut für Kunstkritik Series

Art and Subjecthood: The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism

Hal Foster

Ina Blom

Oliver Brokel

Caroline Busta

Stefan Deines

Stefanie Heraeus

Architecture

Sternberg Press

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