The drawing is depicted on page 16 of Willi's catalogue, You read, that you think you're reading - Or do you think, that you read you're thinking? (1982) Wikipedia: Jean Willi graduated in Basel in a six-year training as a graphic designer and worked there and in Paris, among other things as a designer for Olivetti and Kodak. In 1973 he began after a trip to Africa to paint and draw. In 1977, he developed his own drawing technique, in which a kind of calligraphy linked to structures and networks. Work related nature have been 1982 in a group exhibition in Zurich with the title "Schreibgestik" along with artists such as Roman Opalka and Cy Twombly issued. He later painted letters, as they might appear from their sound goes. Published in 1988, the Swiss art magazine you his illustrations to Hundred Years of Solitude. The diversity of its artistic potential he showed in 1989 in the Basel exhibition "POLE" in his attempt to combine the different facets of his work together and at the same time against each other. Jean Willi designed and illustrated a number of books, published articles in journals and wrote or co-author Martin Suter screenplays for the television series "The Director.". He caused a sensation with his novel Sweet Home, (started in 1994, in 1999 published by Ricco Bilger) over which the Swiss writer Adolf Muschg wrote: "I remember a long time not to have read something so authentic, the sensual, social, psychological 'nutritional value' of these early experiences, threats and loneliness is incomparable, "and testified about Willi:" an excellent observer and chronicler, who is also still a good narrator."] The book is not only an autobiographical novel of development, but it is also with the attempt to clarify the alleged murder of his father at Willis stepmother, for this go to jail for fifteen years a kind of rehabilitation of always "not guilty" explanatory father. Published in 2005 his publisher with the detective novel matar the haunting psychological portrait of a killer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.