Manfred, the poet of the husband and wife team sponsoring the show, is an important Austrian poet, while Dagmar is a curator and patron of artists, apart from being a gallery owner.

The four foreign artists include Helga Cmelka. One of her works has writings on the silk base of orange and gold on which are more large letterings in gold thread. Most of the writings contain lines from poems and novels. She uses silk gauze mounted on canvas to form the backdrop on which are large, startling motifs of needlework. This flamboyant and dazzling work is "experimental work, and brings in different techniques and colours," as Manfred Chobot puts it.

Robert Svoboda has an enormous representation of a burnt cigar as the main subject. The is a project in which the artist has played with quotations from Shakespeare's popular play, Romeo and Juliet. He plays with reduction of the book, the cover of which frames the art work in sepia, brown and white in the form of repeated images of the book cover in patterns of dots, dashes, circles, ovals, lines and prototype Elizabethan floral motifs. Robert smoked the cigar as he scanned the play on the computer. This work was not easy to create as the cigar cinders are also clearly represented. Thus the artist plays with a new way of projecting the Avon bard, as Manfred explains.

The Expressionistic and figurative work by Franz Schwarzinger is more obvious for the average gallery goer. Franz projects an image of a startled man dressed in formal western clothes, with a bush of greenish-gray hair, buttoned coat and kerchief in the breast pocket. Thus in this modern portrait, one can view only parts of the human body, with interlacing gray and blue texture work in the background. This compelling image is in acrylic and water-colour.

More abstract and presenting a landscape in geometrical forms is Ernst Zdrahal's work in baby-blue, gentle pink, midnight blue, black grey and white. Ernst uses colours normally used in silk-screens, using print colours on paper, as Manfred concludes.