After the very successful Schiele exhibition, the Kunsthaus Zug is deliberately switching from a classic museum to an art gallery and presenting two artists with a biographical connection to the Zug region. The promotion of outstanding Zug artists is an important concern for us.

André Gysi (b. 1957), Baar, and Stefan Steiner (b. 1963), from Steinhausen, have already been guests at the Kunsthaus Zug several times on a smaller scale. Both artists only got to know each other personally during the preparation of the exhibition and began a mutual artistic confrontation. Thus, the works of two different positions - film/photography and painting - will meet in the show, occasionally entering into neighborhoods or even dialogues, but also moving away again, etc.

Together, they have conceived an idiosyncratic publication. Instead of a secondary text on "Art and Artists", Gysi and Steiner have exchanged questions that make the mutual artistic rapprochement comprehensible and give the reader an introduction to their artistic work. Beyond the individual presentation of the work, the exhibition and publication are the result of an artistic approach and a creative process.

André Gysi has been working with 16mm film - a disappearing medium - for a long time. The results can be seen for the first time. He is not interested in the trendy, electronically cold video image, but in the inadequate, old black-and-white film. In his experimental approach to the rediscovered medium, Gysi opened up a fascinating potential for expression. Beyond grand cinematic illusions, his photographs of nature vividly illustrate the existential play of light and dark. Gysi juxtaposes the moving images with large, resting photographs.

For Stefan Steiner, colour is the essential artistic means that he patiently explores for himself. He develops a concept to extend his object paintings into the real space of the Kunsthaus: walls as carefully processed pictorial grounds. The exhibition turns into a quiet, atmospheric colour installation. Steiner's painting, which is as emotional as it is conceptual, wants to be explored in peace and quiet, revealing its profundity and power.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication conceived by the artists.

From the collection: Swiss Surrealism/Fantasy and Informel. Works by: Brignoni, Grab, Jacob, Moeschlin, Moser, von Moos, Roth, Seligmann, Wiemken et al.