- PIC

PIC. Best known for his tender bubble act
created while he was with the Roncalli Circus.

I hope you enjoy learning more about this talented performer.
Please visit his website.

The video embedded below is of Pic in performance.
It is a classic and wonderful example of bubble artistry.

If you are an aspiring bubble entertainer, I hope you will see in PIC’s engaging act what I see: A performer, connecting and communicating with his audience.
Far from his mind are the hours spent practicing, searching his soul, wracking his brain... sorting through all of his options and then discarding every idea that might get in the way of PIC simply being PIC.

NOTE: I share these videos because of their historical significance and potential to inspire. Duplication of the original creative content (aka: Borrowing, Stealing, Copying) seen in this video is more than discouraged. It is illegal.

Soap Bubble Artists, like most other communities of variety artists, have an ethic of Safe Sharing.
This means we are surprisingly open and encouraging of newcomers interested in learning about what we do. It also means we value originality and therefore are vigilant when it comes to protecting, respecting, acknowledging and celebrating our fellow artists innovations ~ whenever and however they were revealed.

Once again, the computer translation to English of a portion of his site (below)
leads to some bizarre phrases. It was, however, the best I could do.

Pic, 1949 born, grown up in St. Gallen (Switzerland), bereist since 1969 with own programmes the half world. Between them it initiated people circuses as citizens' initiatives, made kurzfilme, was engaged seven years with Roncalli, two seasons with the circus knee, one year at the chamber plays Munich and with "PICanterie" three months in the winter garden Varieté in Berlin. Between the tours it paints.

Pic shows new faces
Pic became world-famous with its soap blister number. After two and a half years at home it acknowledges now as a clown.

Reinhold Hoenle
Pic suffered and is pleased last week with Swiss football Nati enormous about the qualification. Its prognosis: "with the WM could it the Vorrunde get over and on the EM 2008 be of still more able!"

With the 56-jaehrigen Richard Hirzel - as Pic is called civil - a special history puts behind that he is not only clown, but also football fool. In recent years it played with the FC pc. Gallen and wanted to become soccer players.

"I experienced, how my father suffered to be able to hardly nourish as painters its family. Therefore I had to get myself my self-assurance with the sport. With 18 years however a heavy knee injury stopped me."

Positive it was to the fact nevertheless that she removed the difficult decision between a sport and from it a clown career. The form, which played the central role in its occupation, remained however the ball. "as a schoolmate in a boring French hour me its passing beauty made, began seifenblasen to fascinate", tells the artist.

In the program "Pic plays" occurred it then for the first time, however still long not in the today's splendour. "A larger ring and a special caustic solution, which I devised together with a chemist particularly for this number, made these blisters possible only."

Chemistry alone is however no guarantor for the success of Pics of famous poetic conclusion number of each program. "High temperatures, small air humidity and static tensions with thunderstorms let them become the lotterie sometimes", betray Hirzel, whose artist name derived its sister from its favourite painter Picasso.

Pic became 1980 to 1982 the term. As "Roncalli" sign it contributed to the wiedergeburt of the circus in Germany. From its two "Knie" tours that is legendary with the nilpferd disguised as a butterfly. He spent the last two and a half years at home in pc. Gallen. There it go out-hit a corner its numbers for the new tour. And it dedicated itself above all Jil, which had pulled with 15 years from the metropolis Hamburg to it to its daughter: "the father was announced!", Hirzel says laconically.

Tour data

The new program
The poetic and cheerful program "the key" consists to two thirds of new, partly spoken numbers and of pantomimischen Evergreens. Most successful Swiss clown of the present arises at the following places: 26.11. Langenthal; 1.-3.12. Berne; 14.12. Arosa; 21.1. Miles; 16.2. Zofingen; 15.3. Winterthur; 18.3. Rapperswil Jona; 6.5. Solothurn; 7.5. Biel .
www.pic.ch

P.S.
The clown and the photo fool

If star clown Pic (l.) and, do not only think they both look to Coopzeitungs star photographer Christian Lanz on the miniature Eiffelturm of Paris, but to their time at the renowned theatre school of Jacques Lecoq.

Does not meet is it there: Pic visited it 1972-1974, Lanz directly thereafter. Only years later discovered Pic and Lanz their common past. And they are itself united: Lecoq was a outstanding paedagogue.

Nevertheless Lanz already gave up contrary to Pic the school after one term, since the stage did not correspond to him, and became a photographer. Fortunately, because who would have otherwise Pic for the Coopzeitung so skillfully photographed?