German, English

• ISBN: 978-3-7165-1864-9
• Pages: 144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Published: 8/2022
• Illustrations: 100
• Dimensions: 21 x 25 cm

Switzerland has never been seen from such perspectives

With the smartphone, pictures and texts are quickly made. But does this really help to remember what was and how it was?
With his painted motifs from all over Switzerland, Rudolf Stüssi transforms what he sees and experiences, he dynamizes the world he is looking at by not only depicting a moment, but communicating emotions. Urban panoramas or majestic mountain ranges as moving pictorial spaces oscillate virtuously between past and present, between everyday life and the fantastic.
Obliquities distort familiar forms and give the depicted motifs a lively physicality, which makes reality "pleasantly sway". Through this unique perspective, places and landscapes from Switzerland enter into a direct dialogue with the viewer. Autobiographical stories run through the book and convey Stüssi's relationship to the respective works of art on a second and very personal level.

"For me, art is communication. Everything else is too elitist."