Ruth Buck is working with various media. Paintings made with car finish, photographs, video, textual and sound works are all found on the same level. A longer stay in India last year evoked new group of works, which can be seen for the first time at the gallery. In the middle of attention is definitely the series „Come Back to Earth – The Pairs“. In India, she took more than 700 photographs of floors, which she „stepped on“ on the subcontinent. With digital techniques she overlaps two pictures, which as a pair create a left and a right foot. These cross-fadings are interesting, quasi-coincidental compositions, which are able to condense the symbolic union of “foot-ground”. In her video installation “Come Back to Earth – The March” (on display at Videokunst.ch), she strings the single images after each other to create an interesting path over the various floors – literally an inspection of a different kind. Ruth Buck is giving the viewer a possibility to almost physically be on the Indian ground. The “Synapsen” are wonderful formations made of coral pieces, which with the aid of acrylic paint become compact miniature sculptures.

In Marius Lüscher’s oeuvre of paintings, abstract paintings – on which he applies thin layers of oil paint with a brush and with this works his way through many layers – have an important position. He skillfully uses color gradients, transparently used color application and the flow of the wet color to create fascinating compositions. Lines are meandering, forms are dissolving, and plains are structuring the finely composed, pseudo-organic structure. With color seals he erases, covers – the paintings are evolving from alleged coincidence – and are ending in coincidence. Hence Marius Lüschers rather refers to coincidental constellations than to conceived compositions. These constellations consist of individual parts, arrangements of different elements on an empty space. And still, his paintings never seem to be overloaded. The white background keeps the bold colors grounded and lets them breathe. The formations are tenderly composed; one can always find an unusual image composition. In this context „Untitled“ is not an empty phrase – only this title allows plenty of connotations, to which the works are inviting us.