Brancolini Grimaldi is pleased to announce "The Park", an exhibition of black-and-white photographs from the 1970s by Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki. This will be Mr. Yoshiyuki's first solo exhibition in Italy.
For these photographs, taken in Tokyo's Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Mr. Yoshiyuki used a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash to document the people who gathered there at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched--and sometimes participated in--these couplings. With
their raw, snapshot-like quality, these images not only uncover the hidden sexual exploits of their subjects, both homosexual and heterosexual, but also provoke questions about our own attitudes towards surveillance and voyeurism.
Brancolini Grimaldi Arte contemporanea Roma/Firenze
I . Roma, 20.11. - 11.01.2009