Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea presents, for the first time in Italy, the provocative photographs of Alberto García-Alix, one of the most important Spanish contemporary photographers and the foremost representative of the spanish Movida, the post-Franco era of free expression. García-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. García-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", García-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. 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.