biography
Carlo Rocchi Bilancini was born in Todi in 1973, into a historic family of glassmakers.
After graduating in Economics, he attended the Forma Foundation for Photography in Milan. He is a photographer known for using swimming pools as backdrops for his work, a career he greatly influenced by his collaboration with director Pupi Avati.
In 2011, Skira published his first project ‘Pesci fuor d’acqua’, with texts by Antonia Mulas, Malcolm Bull, Brian O’Doherty, and an interview with Federico Sardella.
Some photographs from Pesci fuor d’acqua were exhibited in Venice in 2012, in a solo exhibition held during the 13th Architecture Biennale at the La Piscina exhibition space on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, and in Doha in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Qatar.
Nel 2018 si tiene la prima mostra personale di Rocchi Bilancini a New York, Migration, presso la Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò della New York University.
In 2018, Rocchi Bilancini's first solo exhibition in New York, Migration, was held at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University. All of his photographic series Pesci fuor d'acqua, In-chiostri, Migrazioni, and the more recent Dissolvenze are united by the use of swimming pools, and each series represents the conceptual evolution of the previous one.
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