Basquiat: The Modena Paintings

Name: Basquiat: The Modena Paintings
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Basquiat: The Modena Paintings centres on a pivotal summer in 1982 when Jean-Michel Basquiat created a series of large-scale canvases for his first solo exhibition in Europe, at Emilio Mazzoli's gallery in Modena, Italy. These eight monumental paintings, each measuring at least two by four metres, capture the artist's transition from graffiti art in Manhattan streets to mature canvas work. This collection reunites these rarely exhibited masterpieces, highlighting a defining moment in Basquiat's development and featuring some of his most outstanding works.
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This title will appeal to enthusiasts of contemporary art and Basquiat collectors, as well as students and scholars of 20th-century art history interested in the artist's breakthrough European exhibition and his evolution from street artist to renowned painter.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Fondation Beyeler.

Description

The Show that never Was

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 travelled 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 metres 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775755092

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 74 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Sam Keller
Text by Dieter Buchhart
Edited by Iris Hasler
Designed by Christoph Steinegger

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 120

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

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.