Jutta Bobbe | MyArtSpace

Floating geometric configuration, semi-transparent mist, mutated soft mechanical organs, living organism intermediate between human being, lactation, fish, insect and even plant, present a psychedelic and enticing visual effects with lots of fantastic imagination in Jutta’s painting world. Jutta is an artist who excels in both skills and reflection. At the beginning of 21st century, when the human beings are increasingly mutated by science and technology, visual art is also experiencing the difficulty of evolution with constantly retrofitting in forms. However, Jutta doesn’t agree the claim of so-called “painting died”, and is trying patiently to create a unique dreamland on the drawing paper with pigments.
Except many years of concentration on pure abstract painting, Jutta’s professional background is different from that of most of the artists; her art career begins with costume design. When she was designing the costumes for some drama troupes, she fully realized the charm from the resultant force of an integrated professional team and she also found a variety of possibilities of technique expressions of art at the same time. Her recent series of works obviously indicate her influence by geometric abstractionists and the Surrealists. However, Jutta isn’t bounded by this, she infiltrates her own understanding of life and science and technique into her delicate colors and shapes.
The basic symbol appeared in Jutta’s latest works are the symbolic organic substance based on women’s bodies and organs. These symbols are increasingly growing and differentiating into half mechanical and half living illusions. Life is predisposed to be indefinable; especially in Jutta’s works, life forms are always in the process of transforming into electronic mechanical symbols, which sometimes are in the form of gestating placenta, sometimes flying wings, sometimes voluble limbs and trunks, sometimes pervaded electric wave, sometimes injection engine and sometimes clips of movies. Due to her love for Book of Changes and Lao Tzu, her understanding of life is also featuring strong oriental characteristic; in her opinion, all the essence of lives, both plants and animals, the macrocosmic and the microcosmic, should be coherent, no matter how they extend, transfigure, disassemble or combine.
Jutta’s works indicate a combination of sense and sensibility. She depicts the charm of life with fabled figures and soberly observes the whirligig of times with her critical eyes, by which she has successfully shaped a legend full of colors of future with her science-fiction-like creation. Source: Li Xu: Director of   Shanghai Art Museum and Curator of the 7th Shanghai Biennale