Flavio Paolucci – From Guelmim to Biasca
In 2022, an exhibition on the Swiss painter-sculptor Flavio Paolucci was planned in a German museum. The museum had reserved a white wall on which the artist was to create a work. Everything was prepared, but the pandemic prevented the 88-year-old artist from travelling. So Flavio Paolucci had the idea of creating this mural in his studio and then destroying it. This ephemeral artistic gesture prompted the filmmaker to make this portrait.
Cast
- Artist - Painter
- Flavio Paolucci
- Galeristin
- Margit Biedermann
- Galeristin
- Alice Pauli
Flavio Paolucci – From Guelmim to Biasca
Villi Hermann
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Switzerland 2024
- Language
- it., de., fr. OF mit de. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 64min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Flavio Paolucci – Da Guelmim a Biasca
Director & Crew
Villi Hermann
Born in 1941 in Lucerne/Switzerland. Studied at the London Film School. Worked for the broadcasters SFR and RSI. Active as a director, producer, editor, and cinematographer.
Filmography
| 1970: 24 su 24 (Die Schmuggler), Dokumentarfilm 1974: CERCHIAMO PER SUBITOOPERAI, OFFRIAMO... /ARBEITSKRÄFTE GESUCHT, WIR BIETEN…, Dokumentarfilm 1977 SAN GOTTARDO, Spielfilm/Dokumentarfilm 1980 ES IST KALT IN BRANDENBURG, Spielfilm/Dokumentarfilm 1981 MATLOSA, Spielfilm 1986 INNOCENZA/UNSCHULD, Spielfilm 1989 BANKOMATT, Spielfilm 1989 TAMARO. PIETRE E ANGELI. MARIO BOTTA ENZO CUCCHI, Dokumentarfilm 1992 EN VOYAGE AVEC JEAN MOHR, Dokumentarfilm 2000 LUIGI EINAUDI. DIARIO DELL'ESILIO SVIZZERO, Dokumentarfilm 2003 MUSSOLINI, CHURCHILL UND POSTKARTEN, Dokumentarfilm 2006 PÉDRA. EIN REPORTER OHNE GRENZEN, Dokumentarfilm 2009 FROM SOMEWHERE TO NOWHERE, Dokumentarfilm 2011 GOTTHARD SCHUH. UNA VISIONE SENSUALE DEL MONDO, Dokumentarfilm 2017 CHOISIR A VINGT ANS, Dokumentarfilm 2024 FLAVIO PAOLUCCI. DA GUELMIM A BIASCA, Dokumentarfilm HOF 2024 |
“Flavio Paolucci doesn’t talk much and doesn’t expose himself too much to the art market. He is a man of the mountain valley, taciturn, who knows how to listen to his neighbors, to the people who work. He doesn’t go to openings but visits his colleagues’ exhibitions later, quietly and unhurriedly.
Flavio Paolucci is a nature person; he still takes walks in the woods near his studio every day. You always find nature in his paintings. This is not a trend of recent years that can be seen in globalized art; for Flavio Paolucci, nature lives within him and alongside him and is transformed into art for all of us. He loves the silence in his studio and the silence of the nearby forest. For this reason, I made a film with the 90-year-old Ticinese painter and sculptor ‘in exile’.”
Villi Hermann
- Writer
- Villi Hermann
- Eve Martin
- Director of Photography
- Alberto Meroni
- Editor
- Alberto Meroni
- Set Designer
- Daniele Crimella
- Sound Designer
- Marco Viale
- Music Composer
- Zeno Gabaglio
- TV Commissioning Editor
- Silvana Bezzola Rigolini
- Producer
- Villi Hermann