PAST EXHIBITION

Stefan Kurten: Once In A Lifetime

March 28, 2009—May 2, 2009

Stefan Kürten’s subject matter comes from his own photographs of the places he grew up or has traveled to: the familiar, prosaic settings of public gardens and sculptures, shopping malls, and suburban architecture. His use of gold, silver, and copper under-painting creates a warm glow that enhances the nostalgic mood of the work, as though the scene were tarnished with age. It also lends a majestic or religious sensibility to otherwise mundane scenes. The compositions remove any sense of time or place, engendering a feeling of familiarity, of recognition, through the unavoidable association with one’s own memories.

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