FRANKFURT/MAIN, GERMANY.- This undated handout picture shows an untitled sculpture belonging to an exhibition by German artist Michael Beutler at the riverside of the Main in Frankfurt, whose skyline is seen in background. Frankfurt's city cleaning admitted on 10 January 2005 that it accidentally removed one of the works of the show "nicht innen sondern aussen - nicht drinnen sondern draussen" (not interior but exterior - not inside but outside) presented at different sites in the city of Frankfurt. The artist renounces to file an action.

In recent years, Michael Beutler's works have been included in, among others, the exhibition New Heimat at the Kunstverein Frankfurt, where he built a "zig-zag bridge" made of European standardized pallets. It was modeled on Chinese bridges between the mainland and temple islands, which were supposed to prevent evil spirits from entering the sacred places. In September this year, he developed a project for the offspace kjubh in Cologne in collaboration with Henning Bohl. Under the title "Florenz", he deconstructed a conventional party tent by "bending" the four round, metal side poles into an ornamental surface, so that the statics of the tent changed, leading to further interventions, all the way to cutting the roof into a plane like a canopy of leaves.