He meticulously builds his canvases from various layers of oil paint, applied with a brush or palette knife, which he combines with collages and decollages, a technique using the negative of a stencil.

Like a composer who creates his music from notes and silences alternating rhythmically and melodiously, Zurstrassen “composes” his paintings with great freedom, thanks, on the one hand, to an expressive and intuitive pictorial approach and, on the other hand, to a structured and formal approach.

The use of vivid colors as well as varied abstract and figurative motifs gives rise to a striking work, in which movement and stillness intertwine, like sound and silence in music.