This summer, the German-born pop art artist Steffen Kindt is introduced to the Bornholm audience. Steffen Kindt was born in Berlin in 1945 and grew up in Hamburg. He graduated from the Hamburg School of Art from 1967 to 1971. In 1973, he moved to Gentofte with his Danish wife. He has worked for many years as an art director but has always continued painting simultaneously.

WOMEN IN THE CENTER

A picture on the TV screen, an advertisement, or a passing person can be the first step towards a new Steffen Kindt painting. The experience is distilled into a snapshot and reproduced on large canvases. Often the painting evolves and turns into something entirely different from what was initially expected because once it starts to take shape, it must have its own dynamic and tight logic. And it is often women who are at the center.

Women just make good pictures, the artist believes.

A woman’s body has all the shapes and lines one could wish for. I probably use female forms as an alibi to create good pictures. And honestly, I just find the female body beautiful and attractive, but then again, I am a male artist. And she is often cut daringly and invitingly, the woman in Steffen Kindt’s paintings. Like a sports car with smooth, sleek curves. Everything is delicious, exactly as it should be in a piece of good pop art. Sometimes on the verge of nauseating superficiality, but on the other hand, also with a certain ironic distance.