For his exhibition titled "Kiss and Fly" in the "Lido im Malkasten (Bar)", Paul Schwer has developed a special concept. It sums up the important themes with which he engages in his work, and it plays with the name of the venue as well as with the typical elements of the bar.
For Paul Schwer, colour, light and space are fundamental elements of his artistic thinking. He began as a painter: he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, though in the class of the sculptor Erwin Herrich. He started from the classical panel painting and transferred it into three dimensions, created installations, and thus carried the colour into the space. As the former director of the Bonn Art Museum, Stephan Berg, writes, Paul Schwer has the "need to detach the image from the canvas, the surface, the wall and to make it a spatially experienceable, walk-in experience (thus making the image, so to speak, more full of world)".
When one enters the "Lido im Malkasten (Bar)", one faces a large bar counter and is surrounded by walls painted dark blue. The room is lit only indirectly.`