The exhibition is linked to ‘Giambattista Piranesi. Sognare il sogno impossibile’, the Piranesi exhibition at Palazzo Poli. Both these exhibition projects are dedicated to the 300th anniversary of Piranesi’s birth. Sergei Tchoban is a Russian and German architect working in various cities in Europe and the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA), the Union of Architects of Russia, and the Union of Artists of Russia, and honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. In 2010 and 2012 Sergei Tchoban was the curator of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (in 2012 he was awarded a Special Mention – the first time that Russia has won an award at the Venice biennale). In 2009 he founded the Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing, whose purpose is to house a collection of drawings and watercolours by Western European architects, painters and artists from the 18th century through to the first half of the 19th century, as well as to popularize this art form among contemporary architects. In 2018 Sergei Tchoban was awarded the European Architecture Prize. He has won many international drawing competitions, including KRob Architecture Competition (USA) and the competition of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI).