From October 27 to November 30, 2019, Spazio Field— a new exhibition venue within Palazzo Brancaccio, formerly home to the National Museum of Oriental Art—hosts Anton Yelchin – Provocative Beauty, the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to Anton Yelchin, the American film actor and photographer who tragically passed away in 2016 at the age of just 27.
Known for his roles in more than seventy films, including Star Trek, Green Room, Terminator: Salvation, and Alpha Dog, and passionate about photography since adolescence, Yelchin had begun a parallel career in photography, publishing his images and receiving commissions from international magazines. Curated by Clayton Calvert and Alessio de’ Navasques, the exhibition brings together a selection of approximately fifty-one photographs taken by Yelchin over the last six years of his life. Set within the grand halls of Spazio Field—a space devoted to research and cross-pollination among new visual languages—the exhibition unfolds as an emotionally charged journey that narrates the artist’s life.
The saturated and transgressive atmospheres of Hollywood serve as the gateway to a journey of self-discovery, moving through the grotesque, the sensual, and the surreal, through the use of multiple exposures and striking contrasts of light.