Berlin.- Galerie Gebr. Lehmann is proud to present “Keiichi Tanaami: Drawings and Collages 1967 – 1975”, on view at the gallery through January 21st 2012. It is mostly the bare curves of women’s bodies that populate the focal point of Keiichi Tanaami’s black and white drawings from the late 60s and early 70s. One woman swivels her shapely derriere lasciviously in the center of the picture, while the other takes off her pullover, revealing her breasts. They lay there sprawled out on a chaise longue, or sitting straddle-legged on the tip of an airplane, or they are engulfed in the sex act. Already as early as the sixties, Tanaami’s drawings sing the praise of the independence of eroticism as well as the liberation afforded by the imaginary. The cosmos of Tanaami images shown in the Berliner Galerie Gebr. Lehmann belongs to a time when Japan’s postwar society was recovering from war with the USA, when new prosperity was emerging. They belong to a time when economic consumption was activated, when not only the US-made drug LSD reached Japan’s shores, but also the credo of free love.