Flavio Paolucci Biography
Flavio Paolucci (1934 - ) born in 1934 in Torre, in Val di Blenio, Switzerland, Flavio Paolucci trained at the Cantonale School of Painting in Lugano and, at the same time, began working at the Atelier Oscar Bölt in Locarno. Having enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan, under the guidance of Aldo Carpi he approached the language of Mario Sironi and Achille Funi, deepening his 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 second prize at the UNESCO International Exhibition. In 1964 he moved to Morocco, where he lived for a year. The Moroccan experience marked him profoundly, so much so that it pushed him to return a second time in 1967. In the Seventies, with the Innesti series, his work reached a turning point: a visual and material language came to light that expressed the dialogical strength of nature in an incessant research that the artist continues today. In the 1980s the Quadri.object took shape: compositions in which symbolic objects that marked human evolution were inserted for the first time. In 1984 the Kunstmuseum of Olten dedicated his first solo exhibition to him, followed by a retrospective at the Museo Cantonale of Lugano in 1988. In the 1990s he reached his compositional aesthetic peak with his Thought-Objects. In 1995 his first solo show was organized in Italy, at the Mudima Foundation in Milan. Since 1968 he has lived and worked in Biasca, in the Canton of Ticino.
