Urbanlandscapes – Max Ernst said about the collage: it is a combination of the most different materials and contents which do not belong together on one level and the spark of poetry which jumps over it.
In this sense, to me the city is a large, constantly changing collage. It’s a aleidoscope
which creates new aesthetic orders and arrangements in front of the onlooker’s eyes
with every movement. The approach of many of my pictures to this theme, therefore, is
subject to this very principle.
Dichotomies are positioned within an ordered tension: Artistic gestures against graphic
precision, Abstraction against objectiveness, Monochromes against polychromes, Printed
against painted, Organic against technical, Old against new, Extraordinary against trivial …
Frank Rödel
