Basquiat: The Modena Paintings - Hardcover

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9783775755092: Basquiat: The Modena Paintings
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3775755098 ISBN 13: 9783775755092
Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Numerous publications and exhibitions have examined Jean-Michel Basquiat’s extensive oeuvre that consists of more than 3000 works. This catalogue, however, focuses on eight paintings: 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 his 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960–1988, New York) ist einer der bedeutendsten Maler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er kam aus der Kunstszene des Post-Punk-Underground in Lower Manhattan und arbeitete während seiner kurzen Karriere eng mit Künstlern wie beispielsweise Andy Warhol oder Keith Haring zusammen. Sein sehr umfängliches Œuvre besteht aus über 3000 Werken.

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960–1988) grew up in Brooklyn. Notoriety came early, from his street paintings made under the tag SAMO. Later he stormed the gallery world, and became an icon of New York's vibrant early-'80s downtown scene, a friend to and collaborator with Andy Warhol and Francesco Clemente, and the cover boy for a 1985 New York Times Magazine story on the new art market. He died following a heroin overdose at 27.

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

This catalog focuses on eight paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat made in the summer of 1982, when he traveled to Modena, Italy, for one of his first solo exhibitions in Europe at the gallery of Emilio Mazzoli. Within the span of just a few days, Basquiat painted a group of large-format paintings that surpassed his previous work in both scale and method. Each measuring around 6.5 by 13 feet, these works mark Basquiat's transition from creating graffiti in the streets of Manhattan to painting on canvas. The conception and occasion of the exhibition ultimately proved fraught, and instead of conceding to pressure and expectations, Basquiat canceled the show. The paintings-including masterpieces that today are considered pivotal and among the most outstanding of his oeuvre-have never been shown together. This catalog revisits this crucial moment of Basquiat's career and reunites them for the first time.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) grew up in Brooklyn. Notoriety came early, from his street paintings made under the tag SAMO. Later he stormed the gallery world, and became an icon of New York's vibrant early-'80s downtown scene, a friend to and collaborator with Andy Warhol and Francesco Clemente, and the cover boy for a 1985 New York Times Magazine story on the new art market. He died following a heroin overdose at 27.

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Verlag
Hatje Cantz Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3775755098
ISBN 13 
9783775755092
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
126
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