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're 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's ability to capture the city with sensitivity and expressiveness recalls the aesthetics of pre-Impressionist painters. The German artist creates a work that transforms into an emotional experience.
New York the beyond blue VII is a work that combines various shades of blue with perfect harmony. The chaos of the city is attenuated by the soft chromaticism. Koester represents New York on a late afternoon. From the sky, we sense that it has just stopped raining. A light makes space among the clouds. Car headlights are reflected in puddles.
Koester's works are a poetic story made with images.