Knastzeichnungen

Plot

Knastzeichnungen is a drawing study as a result of Andreas Züst's short prison stay in the beginning of the 1980s, presumably 1983. Even if there’s few remaining evidence – the corresponding statutory register has been deleted – the drawings very clearly speak for themselves: the series, mostly A4 sheets, drawn on white paper with graphite, felt pen and possibly coal, show detailed drawings of the prison's interior fittings, frottages of different surface structures inside the cell, artistic-philosophical thoughts on the topic of punishment and sketched escape fantasies. It is a series which once again proves Andreas Züst to be an artist to whom, in his phenomenological work, a prison cell can be an insight.

Andreas Züst (1947 – 2000) studied natural sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He later worked as a research assistant in climatology and glaciology in Canada, Greenland, and the Swiss Alps. From 1979 onward, he presented numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Switzerland and internationally. Between 1991 and 1994, he co-produced Peter Mettler’s film "Picture of Light". In 1994, he founded the Andreas Züst Publishing House