Use of oil paint and surprising painting technique. Spatula strokes and refined brushstrokes. Plays of light and shadow. Representation of space through the masterful use of perspective. Careful study of the metropolises represented on canvas, captured from dusk to night. We are talking about Martin Koester. His extraordinary works have a truly astonishing communicative capacity. The urban territories of Koester are surrounded by a dark luminosity. Melancholic metropolises. Cars queuing and anonymous citizens reflected in puddles. Skylines caressing the tumultuous sky. Skyscrapers choking the street. Koester is a modern Flâneur who describes, through painting, the romanticism of cities. Even in these cases, Koester manages to capture the melancholy of the American city. The brushstrokes and palette knife strokes create a truly eloquent atmosphere.