Documentary, 78 min.

by Villi Hermann

Switzerland, October 1998

This film is about two artists: one from the mountains, the Italian-Swiss architect Mario Botta, who built a chapel – and the other, the Italian artist Enzo Cucchi, a man of the sea, who painted the frescoes in it, one of which is 70 m long. Both artists are endowed with the gift of being able to perceive and sense their innermost feelings and to create visual images of them. There are affinities between the primitivism of Enzo Cucchi's paintings and Mario Botta's architecture. Botta's chapel brings to mind the solidity of a mountain refuge, whilst Cucchi's frescoes depict his visions of the South, of the sea: the mountains and the sea finally brought together. This dream became reality in the southern Swiss Canton Ticino, 20 km from Lugano on Monte Tamaro, 1600 m above sea level. The harmony of ideas between architect and artist, the creation of the different frescoes in this chapel “created by four hands”, is the theme of the film which is a “film in progress”.