9 may – 11 july 2014 foro buonaparte 46, milan

9 MAY – 11 JULY 2014
FORO BUONAPARTE 46, MILAN, ITALY
IVAN BIANCHI
VISIONS OF THE INTERIORS OF 19 TH CENTURY ST. PETERSBURG
OPENING EVENT Thursday 8 May 2014 – from 6 pm to 9 pm
OPEN from 9 May – 11 July 2014
TIMES Monday to Friday, 10 am – 12.30 pm / 2 pm – 6 pm| Saturdays by appointment
RBcontemporary is pleased to announce the show IVAN BIANCHI: VISIONS OF THE
INTERIORS OF 19TH CENTURY ST. PETERSBURG, from May 9 to July 11, 2014 in
Foro Buonaparte 46, Milan. This is the first solo show entirely dedicated to Ivan Bianchi’s
Russian interiors images.
Ivan Bianchi (1811 – 1893) is a Swiss photographer from Ticino, he was one of the pioneers of
the new photographic tecnique just developed in Europe. Ivan Bianchi was one of the first
European photographers to go in Russia in mid nineteenth century.
St. Petersburg is the main subject of his photographic work: monuments, streets, palaces. Few
Ivan Bianchi’s images are usually known, especially images that depict interiors of important
palaces. This could be a great occasion for researchers as well as for collectors to see original
and unpublished prints.
The twenty prints we will display are such of historical importance to document the noble and
imperial Russia that will disappear few years later. Private interiors with great furniture, pianos,
paintings, carpets as much more: mansions for high cultured people.
Ivan Bianchi worked for very important family such as Stroganov, Seremetev, Levasov,
Paskevich and many others.
Critical text for the exhibition written by Roberto Mutti.
Ivan Bianchi (Varese 1811 – Lugano 1893). We can recreate Ivan Bianchi’s life through documents
about him and his family in Swiss and Russian archives. He probably arrived in Russia in 1821 when he
was ten years old with his painter uncle Angelo Giuseppe Artari. In 1839 he went abroad to study and in
1846 he was in Moscow working as artist. In 1858 the Imperial Fine Art Academy gave him the title of
Artist. He was a watercolor painter and a photographer. His first plates signed was from 1852. In 1863
he was in St. Petersburg. In 1870 he achieved the honorable mention at the Russian International
Exhibition in St. Petersburg, he was well-adjusted in the best St. Petersburg environment. In 1884 he
came back to Switzerland. He died in 1893 in Lugano.
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