Seize a Moment. Technological Abstraction: Solo Show of Vincenzo Bianchi in Tsereteli Art Gallery

The Russian Academy of Arts and Moscow Academy Art Lyceum present a solo show of Vincenzo Bianchi, the Italian artist, public figure, teacher, philosopher and poet. The multi-sided work of Vincenzo Bianchi includes all kinds of visual arts from sculpture to drawing, from graphic sheets to video art. “Seize a Moment” exhibition is one of Vincenzo Bianchi’s numerous projects. On display in Tsereteli Art Gallery (19 Prechistenka street, Moscow) are 30 works created as a synthesis of the man-made implementation of an idea and its further processing by computer programs.

On September 11, 2012 at the Session of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts Vincenzo Bianchi was presented with the regalia of an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Vincenzo Bianchi was born in Fontana Liri (Frosionone, Italy)) in 1939. For many years he worked as a Director of the Academy of Arts in Macerata (Italy) and for 25 years headed a Department of Sculpture in the Fine Arts Academy of Florence. Vincenzo Bianchi is an Honorary President of the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Academy.

He is an author of the famous “New Icarus” sculpture commissioned by the European Parliament in Strasbourg, as well as a well-known sculptural composition dedicated to Moses standing on Mount Nebo in Jordan. In honor of the visit of the Pope of Rome to the Holy Land Vincenzo Bianchi created an ambo for a church in Jerusalem and two gold medals that were presented to the Pontiff. In 1998 he was received by the Pope John Paul II who presented him with “The Stone of the Mount Europe for Peace”.

Vincenzo Bianchi has authored a silver miniature “The Vessel of Friendship” commemorating World War II. Among its holders are: the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Prime-Minister of Israel Shimon Peres; Italian Prime-Minister Giulio Andreotti, Nobel Prize Winner Mikhail Gorbachev; President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli. In 1998 and 2000 Vincenzo Bianchi was invited to the award ceremony for International Poetry Prize in Macedonia, where two books of his poems had been published. In 2001 the President of the Japanese Fujiankei Group invited him to design a laser show in the biggest museum in the open air - The Hakone Open-Air Museum. Vincenzo Bianchi is an Honorary Citizen of several Italian cities and of the Macedonian city of Ohrid, as well as an Honorary Member of many Italian National and International organizations. He is a President of the Society of Dante Alighiery in Scopje (the Republic of Macedonia), Doctor Honoris Causa in art of the International University of Higher Sciences “Pro Deo” (New York), Honorary Member of the International Organization of Poetry “Giacomo Leopardi” (Recanati, Italy). Vincenzo Bianchi is a founder of the school “New Primitive Artists”, as well as a founder of Vincenzo Bianchi’s Prize for Drawing. His solo shows have been in Japan, Canada, Australia, the United States, France, Greece, Sweden, Argentina and many other countries. The master has set up ten museums, each of them is devoted to an outstanding figure of these days or events of world significance. They are united under the title “Labyrinths of Vincenzo Bianchi”. One of them is dedicated to the first spaceman Yury Gagarin. Within the framework of Russia-Italy Cross Culture Year (2011) he initiated an international project “Vincenzo Bianchi and Students of the World”. The Project has been included in the federal program “Russian Culture 2012-2016” and supported by the Russian Academy of Arts and UNESCO Chair for Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts. The founder and donator of the grant is Prof. Vincenzo Bianchi who provides the best students of the Moscow Academy Art Lyceum and V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute with a possibility to study in Vincenzo Bianchi’s studios and have an open-air practice in Italy.



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