Jerry Calote created a parallel body of work during the initial years he spent in Switzerland that was experimental and a departure from the style of painting  he had been producing up until 1986 and the “new” surrealism he was producing in Europe.  In this adopted environment he felt open to take risks and extend himself outside of his visual and technical comfort zone.  These works demonstrate a looser brushstroke and a departure from illustrative clarities.

“Finding his way” into a modern form of art, he participated with fellow artists in several European abstract and post modern exhibitions. These creations still retained the strong conceptual platforms and some of the humour that is common in the artist’s work, and the results provided him with a confidence to continue his modernistic endeavors.