Flavio Paolucci

Born in 1934 in Torre, Val di Blenio, Switzerland, Flavio Paolucci trained at the Cantonal School of Painting in Lugano and, in parallel, began working at the Atelier Oscar Bölt in Locarno. Enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan, under the guidance of Aldo Carpi he approaches the language of Mario Sironi and Achille Funi, deepening their artistic research. In 1958 he exhibited for the first time with the sculptor Giovanni Genucchi, his compatriot. In the early 1960s he began traveling for study purposes and in 1961, in Paris, he received the second prize at the Unesco International Exhibition. In 1964 he moved to Morocco, where he lived for a year. The Moroccan experience marked him deeply, so much so that he returned a second time in 1967. In the seventies, with the series Innesti, his work reached a turning point: a visual and material language came to light that expresses the dialogic strength of nature in an incessant research that the artist continues today. In the Eighties, the Quadri.object take shape: compositions in which, for the first time, symbolic objects that have marked human evolution are inserted. In 1984 the Kunstmuseum in Olten dedicated his first solo show to him, followed by the retrospective at the Lugano Cantonal Museum in 1988. In the nineties he reached his compositional aesthetic apex with his objects-thought. In 1995 his first solo show in Italy was organized at the Mudima Foundation in Milan. Since 1968 he has lived and worked in Biasca, in the Canton of Ticino.

Source: CSArt - Communication for Art, Absolute natural exhibition