His attention is shifted, as he tries to capture the contrasts the interchangeable images between heavy and light, solid and liquid and static and motion. Here, his influence is strengthened by the Japanese world of imagery. In 1988 and 1989, the drawing components began to become independent. In 1989, Stephan Spicher temporarily departed from Ticino, where he had become a deeply rooted member of the Ticino artist community to return to Basel, where he continues to work today. Spicher's multi-part wall of ashes impresses with its concentrated energy and multi-layered density, which contains signs of fire, ashes, and traces of charred beams and branches in the paint and in the compressed material. The exhibition "Constellations, Aspects of Contemporary Swiss Art" then continued to Taiwan and the USA and can subsequently also be seen at the Kunsthalle Basel.
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Together with a selected group of young Swiss artists and commissioned by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia to travel to Japan. In 1986, he creates the first "walls of ashes", which from 1986-1987 is observed with the use of rust colored reds from Menning, created in the Medrisiotto region on the border of Italy. His preoccupation with the earth and geology led him to return to the south of Switzerland where he finds connection with earthy tones and natural pigmentations, such as the use of ashes and gypsum. In the winter of 1982-83 Spicher spent his time in the cold of Berlin where his focus moved from the colors to black and white dimensions. At that time he was still completely under the spell of color and discovered the spiritual and dynamic expressiveness of sacred two-dimensional painting of the Italian Middle Ages and thus an artistic attitude that particularly fascinated and influenced him compared to that of the Renaissance. His first continuous creative period lasted until 1983, and was influenced by his stay in Ticino and several study trips to Italy. His father was a geologist who conducted much of his research in the valley of Maggia and surrounding areas. In 1980, Spicher moved to Maggia of Tessin, Switzerland, where he had spent part of his childhood and where he first discovered his love for the geological tectonics of the valley. He then completed his training with the Italian painter Beppe Assenz.
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