Art Of The Day Weekly
#395 - from 2 July 2015 to 8 July 2015
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Self-Portrait, 1984. Acrylic and oil bar on paper, mounted on canvas, 100 x 70 cm. Yoav Harlap Collection. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York
Basquiat, the meteor
BILBAO - Jean-Michel Basquiat, a dissenting icon of the 80s, a true Jimi Hendrix of painting, died in 1988. He would be in his fifties today. How did his work resist the passage of time? Close to one hundred paintings and drawings, of which some done in collaboration with Andy Warhol or Keith Haring, bring his violent urban universe back to life. The city –Brooklyn-, the subway and the traffic, the racism, boxing and drugs, poverty and the ever-present consumers society, in bright colors, stick letters and paint drippings.
• Basquiat, le moment est venu at the Guggenheim, from 3 July to 1 November 2015.