Basquiat: The Modena Paintings

Sam Keller, Dieter Buchhart, Iris Hasler, Christoph Steinegger

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The Show that never Was

Reuniting eight key Basquiat works that mark the graffiti artist's transition to painterly autonomy.

Numerous publications and exhibitions have examined Jean-Michel Basquiat's extensive oeuvre that consists of more than 3000 works, this catalogue though focuses on eight paintings only: In the summer of 1982, Basquiat traveled to Modena, Italy, for one of his first solo exhibitions in Europe at the gallery of Emilio Mazzoli. Within just a few days, he painted a group of large-format paintings that surpassed his previous work not only in terms of their scale. Each at least two by four meters in size, they mark the transition from graffiti spraying in the streets of Manhattan to painting on canvas. At the same time, they reflect an artist coming into his own. The paintings - including masterpieces that today are considered pivotal and among the most outstanding of his oeuvre - have never been shown together. This catalogue revisits this crucial moment of Basquiat's career some 40 years ago and reunites them for the first time.

About the Author

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960–1988, New York) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Emerging from the underground post-punk scene in Lower Manhattan, he attracted the attention of the art world in 1981 with the legendary group exhibition New York/New Wave. In nine prolific years, he created an oeuvre that formulated a new visual language of raw gestural painting fused with dense writing, and repeatedly reflected the oppression, exclusion and exploitation of Black people.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Sam Keller Dieter Buchhart Iris Hasler Christoph Steinegger
Vydavatel	Hatje Cantz
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	120
Formát	23,4 × 26,9 cm
EAN	9783775755092
Rok vydání	2023
Edice	Graffiti & Street Art Katalogy výstav a sbírek Malba Monografie výtvarného umění Současné umění