Biography
FloryAmò Urs, artist , writer, musician and sculptor
1949 born in Sursee,Lucerne (CH)
youth and school years in Lucerne, Switzerland,
public school languages; french, german, english, italiano & schwyzer eeeg ò!
classic studies in piano,flute, guitar, mandoline, bouzuki, some violine, mouthharp, base a.o.
1967 year of Art-school Basel
Live musician for modern dance ballet (Yolanda Meier)
1967-1969 studies in music and art in Paris,Milan,Rome,Florence,Barcelona ,London,
1968/69 Rome, Milano; Paris, Amsterdam and other european countries.
Island winters in Formenterra,Sicily,croatia,Peloponnes
Artist years in Paris,
Baron Lima,friend of Salvador Dali
live stage and club sessions and concerts in Switzerland Basel/Zürich
film for bachelor grade university for humanistic psychology;California (Werner Richner, Aarau)
1972 Aum, first sun, born in Ticino. Marrakesch and Jura 1974 birth of Tai, second son.
1978 – 84 graphic and editorial work.(root-press/Wurzel/schweiz.Landesbibliothek)
1979 graphic art-exhibitions in Basel, Baden-Baden and Nürnberg/ Germany with interviews
experimental street theater (Paracelsus in Basel)
1999 starting courses-reflexion of stones
in Ticino, Narbonne, Carrara and my in 1982 choosen homeplace Cheggio.
marble sculptures.
live and works as freelance- and sculpture-artist in Viganella,Piemonte and Pedemonte in italy and switzerland
Ticino. (monte verità, Ascona)
Published/ prints
Children of Marx and Coca Cola
The psychedelic Tarot ; a threelogy ca.300p. handwritten,Handprint illustrated/
(Crowley cards/Walter Wegmüller Cards)
Wurzel (root press)
programme Bordo/(an ital. Tibet.buddhist center)
europ.Rainbow Archiv
for my friends of the monte verità: haikus /illustrated
tapes:
milestone 1 live and 30'film
bouzuki/saranghi studio recordings
cheggio laboratory; various recordings
important persons met or worked for:
1984-2003 heiner hesse, son of Hermann Hesse
1970 jimi hendrix,way out in Barcelona airport
72-1979 Max Grauli/Walter Wegmüller/Renata Metthez ,Matthias Jenny(all painters)
Mattias und Zoe Jenny (Editor/Autor,Basel)
1972 -80 Roger Monnerat,Sergius Golowin (Autors)
Josef Beuys, Art performer/Mattias Klarwein
Manitas del Plata (gipsy Gitarist)
Sathya Sai Baba,
Karmapa, Dalai Lama and other teachers of tibetan buddhism
Dimitri,clown-teatre-university,Verscio,Ticino
Oscar Fonti,painter
the people from Grattolo/Auressio TI,Bruno,Ueli,Peter,Urs, Helen
Rainer Englert,academic sculpture-,painter-and music-Artist
Bruno Minder,(native indian support)Bern
(and manymany more)
Exibitions:
2006 Torino, symphony to colours, art café with Krug Art group
Viganella , historic moments, ca' del uan
Domodossola, with Quantarte
2006 Saatchi Gallery London / virtual exibition
-verbania
-monte verita, ticino
symposium: alabaster sculpture in toscana
sculpture symposium mamallapuram india
-exhibition art sculpture basel
exhibition stuttgart 2011 sculpture
Online Blogs and Links:
www.saatchionline.com/floriamo
www.cheggio.blogspot.com
www.flickr.com/floriamo
the Cheggio Rainbow Ecopueblo in ValAntrona
Art for peace
Krux Art 2007 press release/group Blog
Rainer Englert, academic sculptor artist
giorgio da Valeggia/ painter
Gino Kuhn, Painter(homepage www.gino-kuhn.de )
le blog delobel-sculpture
the earth foundation
Bordo, tibetan Buddhist Center a Viganella
my sculptures in the saatchi gallery
kontakt: Urs Flury, c.p.602,CH-6602 Muralto/ Tel.+41+78-6705556