Blue days, black nights
Stefan Kürten
2004
Texts by David Frankel and David Gray
Published by Alexander and Bonin, Hosfelt Gallery, Galerie Michael Cosar, and Galerie Ute Parduhn
The buildings so often the subjects of Kürten’s painting come in a range of twentieth-century manners, sometimes stocked with the cold glass and flat surfaces of modernism, sometimes more simple and friendly, in the style of the suburb or garden city. These pictures often treat some balance between the human home and nature. There are never any people in Kürten’s paintings, which makes their utopianism both a little easier to pull off and a little unreal. Distant, still - the work describes nothing attainable, at least not in this life.