German Artist Stefan Kurten's Art work and Piantings at the saatchi-Gallery
Stefan Kurten garden proliferates with all the excess of Victorian design; his intricate gold and green leaves pile with the flat intensity of a fashionable orientalism. Detailed to the point of decadence, Kürten flits effortlessly between geometry and chaos, painting a monument to the careful control of disorder. Systemising the slow process of decay, he transforms it into something cherished and savoured.
Stefan Kurten?s scenes of suburban idyll radiate with pastoral pleasure, thinly concealing neurotic obsession. A neighbourhood of same-box houses, on closer inspection, breaks down into an endless diamond grid. The repetitive pattern of the fence becomes the dappled sunblind sky, newly mown grass and texture of the shadows. Kürten?s mosaic-like brushwork seems not just to paint colour, but light itself. He offers painting as repose: beauty as escapism, a small meditation on the mundane goodness of simple things.
In The Handsome Family, Kürten turns his hand to the supernal quality of modernism. Kürten wields his repetitive forms with the subtlety of Matisse: not initially obvious, but once spotted they appear everywhere. Geometric outlines of the architecture and furniture mix effortlessly with the organic curves punctuating the room. Kürten effuses light throughout with the omni-present speckles of pointillism, replicating a tree, cloudy sky and stucco. His slice of suburbia resounds with a cosmic rhythm, as perfect as nature itself.
Stephan Kürten?s paintings adopt a Renaissance era concept of beauty as mathematical precision. The finite qualities of science provide a working model for visual harmony and spiritual enlightenment. In Silence, Kürten bases his composition on the classical proportion of the Golden Mean. Disclosing this rectangular purity in the grid-like perspective of the building, Kürten repeats this Utopian ratio throughout; the organic disposition of the foliage yields to the refined rules of culture. In painting the precarious balance between nature and civilisation, Kürten finds affinity in its perfection of order.
In Stefan Kurten?s Heartbeat, a backyard jungle creeps, as if by alchemic force, from the thick metallic ground. Possessing the divine quality of religious illuminations, Kürten?s gold paint suggests both richness of spirituality and material wealth. Kürten approaches the experience of painting as meditation: each twig, leaf and fruit, painstakingly painted with jewel-like effect, radiating with its own entrancing power. In this rustic Shangri-la, Kürten unleashes the awesome wonder in the nature of small things.
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