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Jutta Koether's exhibit at Dundee Contemporary Arts includes both her Seven Sacraments series and her Four Seasons series. Her Four Seasons series was originally created for the Whitney Biennial in 2012. They are based off of Nicolas Poussin's series of the same name, which hangs in the Louvre. Her Four Season's series is meant to be an example of the crossroads between painting and performance art, both of which Koether uses in her artistic practice. Koether's Seven Sacraments series is also based off of a series by Poussin, and is also an experiment in performance art and painting, but in Seven Sacraments Koether also delves into installation art. The Seven Sacraments exhibit opens with a painting that is meant to be a bold, garish burst of color as a flashy sign of the entrance of the space. This is the Baptism. Next is the Confirmation, which is comprised of painted strips on panes of glass. These strips are painted using primary colors that mimc Poussin's own color usage. The rest of the exhibit mirrors this structure, redefining Poussin's original series in a style combining painting, installation and performance art.