Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea
The artist's photos, all in black and white, are often strongly narrative portraits of people or objects. His favorite subjects, clothed or naked, are prostitues and drug addicts, boxers and porno actresses, people of the street revealed with their sensibility and humanity.
Part of "FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma"
Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea presents, for the first time in Italy, the
provocative photographs of Alberto Garcia-Alix, one of the most important Spanish
contemporary photographers and the foremost representative of the spanish Movida,
the post-Franco era of free expression.
Garcia-Alix began his career as a child, with his first exhibition in 1981, and has
exhibited his works in the most important Spanish museums including the Reina Sophia
and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid.
Garcia-Alix focuses on his subjects in a straight and frontal way, almost like
boxers do. His photos, all in black and white, are often strongly narrative
portraits of people or objects. His favorite subjects, clothed or naked, are
prostitues and drug addicts, boxers and porno actresses, people of the street
revealed with their sensibility and humanity.
Recurrent themes include tattoos and motorcycles, and he has a passion, vergine on
obsession, for shoes. A frequent fixation, the shoe is never seen as an element of
erotic fetishism but rather as a study of life: one can learn much of the walker's
life through a worn-out shoe.
Called a "painter of modern life", Garcia-Alix loves streets and empty rooms; his
strong and often erotic images describe daily life and prohibited nights.
In 1999 he received the prestigious National Award of Photography of Spain. He has
worked with the most important fashion magazines and designed album covers of
leading musical performers in Spain and Europe.
FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma April 4 - June 6, 2006
The exhibition will take part in the International Festival of Photography in Rome,
promoted by the Municipality of Rome and produced by zoneattive with the artistic
direction of Marco Delogu.
Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea
Via dei Tre Orologi, 6/A - Roma
Tue-Fri 10am-1pm + 3pm-7pm