Fluids, fictional innards and flesh, and paint are used to enhance the painterly gesture that is transformed into a performative action: each canvas on show is the result of an action, capturing and conveying Nitsch's
mystical art philosophy through extreme materiality.
He started to explore the representation of the spiritual in
art and read Bahá» í literature as well as more commercial literature based on Eastern
philosophy, such as the poems of Khalil Gibran, which are based on
mystical Sufi influences.