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Working with collages from a range of source materials collected over the years, Frank Nitsche creates artistic compositions which - in a similar way to the constructivists - are based on linear structures. His monochrome pictorial surfaces create compositions of fluid movement though lines which both seem both to limit them and grow out of them. His palette ranges from black and white or pastel shades to intensive colours. He often erases or scratches away layers only to cover them again, transforming the painting through the very process of creation, so that it spreads over the canvas in its own abstract dynamic rather like a piece of music become visible. His sculptures, built from drink cans then covered with colourful stickers and constructed, collage-like, into towers, offer a bright contrast to his abstract artistic works.