Zug Prison
Zug's penal institution stands right near the railway station: a heavy, bare concrete building behind a high wall, and on this wall, faces have been painted.
A number of different faces peer at us from the wall, in which they seem imprisoned. Are they meant to be inmates of the prison, or are we looking at a mirror image, seeing ourselves, tomorrow's prisoners? Are we not all imprisoned in some way or another? The Russian artist, Pavel Pepperstein, (born 1966) created these wall paintings at the request of the Zug Art Gallery. Inside the prison, his story in pictures continues from the basement, up the stairs to the upper floors: from hell to earth, to people, up to the angels and higher to the gods of different religions.
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The paintings inside the prison can also be viewed by arrangement.
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