
A Bar at ... #5 (feat. a Bar, AM-painting, Pain Bottle, Man, Bruised Grid, Infiniti, Balls, Spectator)
<p>Jutta Koether engages and challenges canonical male artists through a distinctive perspective that is at once decidedly irreverent, self-reflective, allegorical, and gendered. Always attentive to questions of staging and display, she has hung paintings from the ceiling or on floating glass panels, and she frequently experiments with lighting conditions. Her <em>A Bar at . . . #</em> reimagines Édouard Manet’s renowned <em>Bar at the Folies-Bergère</em> (1882; Courtauld Gallery, London), in which a server stands behind a marble countertop, a long mirror in the background. She looks straight ahead; a man, possibly the subject of her pensive gaze, appears as a reflection behind her. In Koether’s reworking of this iconic painting, the subject is now naked, and the confrontation is directly with the viewer. The artist holds a mirror up to us—spectators implicated in the work’s content through our own act of looking.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 2013
- Dimensions
- Painting: 121.9 × 183.5 cm (48 × 72 1/4 in.); Shelf: 14.7 × 15.3 × 299.8 cm (5 3/4 × 6 × 118 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jutta Koether
Artist

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Jutta Koether is a German artist, musician and critic based in New York City and Berlin since the early 1990s.
New York, NY, USA and Berlin, Germany
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- Jutta Koether
- Year
- 2013
- Dimensions
- Painting: 121.9 × 183.5 cm (48 × 72 1/4 in.); Shelf: 14.7 × 15.3 × 299.8 cm (5 3/4 × 6 × 118 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-2013-135027
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified

