Giuseppe Bianchi

Fairfield City Museum and Gallery
Histories, Memories, Other Territories| 7 July - 19 August 2007

The man of profound liberal personality is that of Giuseppe Bianchi. With his ingenious capacity he is capable of working with various forms of material, from concrete, to metal, bronze to timber and thus has created many authentic pieces of art, which are conserved in his museum at Smithfield.

Giuseppe Bianchi was born in Abruzzo, a region of Italy, in 1920. As a child he developed an extraordinary creativity which enabled him to construct toys which he so greatly desired. At the age of 20, he was called up for conscription and three months later WW II broke out and he was sent to the Western French Front. Here began his traumatic experience of war, pictures of violence, unjustified homicides of pain and death fleshed out before him.

As a young soldier, he was involved in the events of the war that took him through vast areas of Italy. After the war ended, Giuseppe worked on the reconstruction of the town of Pescara and immigrated to Argentina in 1949 before later moving to Australia in 1956.
Giuseppe’s dreams as a child to create have become reality and are displayed in his own personal museum at Smithfield.

Extracts from Abruzzo Museum of Arts (Amblema Del Museo) brochure.