Effetto Araki
21 June 2019 - 30 September 2019curated by F. Maggia

A major new exhibition devoted to Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki
Siena celebrates the great Japanese photographer with a selection of 2200 pictures spanning a career of more than 50 years. The exhibition, organized by the Santa Maria della Scala with the support of Opera-Civita, is curated by Filippo Maggia, showcases photographs from over twenty series taken by Araki from the early 1960s to the present day. Araki was eager to celebrate his work over the past 50 years (he held his first show in 1965) with a selection of 2200 works reviewing his long artistic career and offering a virtually complete overview of his endless, highly complex and multi-faceted output, which stretches well beyond the bondage pictures that have made him a household name worldwide. Many of the series – Satchin and his brother Mabo, Sentimental night in Kyoto, August, Tokyo Autumn and others – are being shown in Italy for the very first time, and for some of them – for example Anniversary of Hokusai’s Death and Gloves – it is also their European debut, while the Araki’s Paradise collection, consisting of photographs that Araki took using his own home as his set, has been specially produced for the Siena exhibition: thus an original, meditative and exciting Araki who appears to wish to condense his entire experience both as an artist and as a man in this show.
The exhibition is completed by a video tracking Araki as he chooses the photographs for the exhibition in the company of curator Filippo Maggia and a catalogue book, published by Skira, containing a selection of 300 photographs chosen from among those on display in the exhibition.
Livello 6.
21 June 2019 - 30 September 2019
Opening hours
Daily
10.00 a.m.-07.00 p.m. (last entrance 6 pm)