"Köster values the boundlessness of colour and the rhythmic precision of the structures of Malevich, not to mention the vast potential of the objectless in art, which, with the slightest contiguity with a symbol, acquires the infinite plurality of the associative... It has become commonplace to talk of the diluted state of art history in contemporary visual culture.  We swallow cultural history like a soluble solution in a cocktail of the trash of daily life, of nostalgia for the past and of the euphoric illusion of a wonderful future. Matthias Köster...emphasises the theme of his childhood memories about cinema,,, Köster paints on alluminum...comparable to fresco painting, of lightning brushwork: painting 'alla prima'.  Such a technique does not tolerate correction, but allows, once liberated through Automatism, the transposition onto the flat plane of the future picture of one's memories..." Irina Tchmyreva, PhD. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
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