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.

Born 1947 in Bern. Studied natural sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Research assistant in climatology and glaciology in Canada, Greenland and the Swiss Alps. From 1979, numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. 1991–94, coproduction of Peter Mettler’s film “Picture of Light”. In 1994 he founded the Andreas Züst publishing house. Died August 7, 2000.