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Carlo Rocchi Bilancini was born in Todi in 1973. A photographer with a unique artistic vision, he has been much influenced in his work by collaboration with the film director Pupi Avati and the photographer Enrico Sarsini. After graduating in Economics, he attended the Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia.
In 2011 Skira published Rocchi Bilancini’s first monograph, Pesci fuor d’acqua, with contributions from Antonia Mulas, Malcolm Bull, Brian O’Doherty, and an interview between the artist and Federico Sardella. A solo show featuring a selection of photos from the book was held in 2012 during the 13th annual Venice Biennale for Architecture, in La Piscina on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Hosted by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the show was curated by Živa Kraus and promoted by Umberto Morera.
Among other solo exhibitions are Disgregazione at San Pietro Sopra le Acque, Massa Martana (2010) and Unknowing at the Hampstead Everyman in London, which was curated by Jill Foulston (2009). Group exhibitions include the Prize International Art Contest at the Wannabee Gallery in Milan (2010), and Note d’Artista at Palazzo Landi Corradi del Vignola in Todi (2010).
Rocchi Bilancini has collaborated with a variety of Italian and foreign publishing houses and magazines, and his work appears in Resa till Rom, which was published in Sweden by Ica Bokförlag in 2008.
Evocative and unsettling, Rocchi Bilancini’s photographs reveal his profound interest in essential forms. He sees through structural, natural and man-made exteriors in order to reach the soul of his subjects, whether human figures or inanimate objects, and his diverse portfolio is characterised by a striking sensitivity to the urban landscape and its visual aspects.
Giving expression to what is mysteriously creative in the ordinary world, Rocchi Bilancini’s work celebrates those formal structures that, though they may be hidden, are part of our unconscious experience of everyday life.
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