Jutta Koether exhibited her Paintings at Bortolamy in New York.

Jutta Koether paints in the manner of

psychological handicapped people. What means: They put a

lot of meaning in every image, instead for

leaving room to interpretation they force

all meaning into it. To find collectors,

Bortolamy announces the exhibition like

newspaper advertising, some quotes are from

the paintress Jutta Koether herself: Simple

handshakes have not to be just like they

are, they must gain mystical gravity,

involving the "possibility of being touched

across power systems and ages". So

signifying her style on all other canvasses

as they do flickering between ages and eras

done by sketchily painted forms. Instead of

name dropping she paints images of well

known personalities, to let curators

identify these characters and do the name

dropping after. Upcoming exhibitions by J.K. will

show this again. Let me see, if she change her ideas and painting style.

W.O.