Jean-Michel Basquiat in the studio on Great Jones Street, New York, 1985
Photo: William Coupon
did not want to be a black artist. Veleva be a famous artist
from street graffiti to paint super star, Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world in less than a decade has become a celebrity.
In the paintings of Basquiat boys never become men, they become skeletons and skulls.
Presence is expressed in the absence, whether the spectral bodies schelitri stripped to the bone and who designs or words that bar.
E 'obsessed by the deconstruction of images and language of his fragmented world. His work is espessione the latest in a profound sense of "not here", a deep hole in the soul.
The first complete biography of the artist: Basquiat : Life and shiny short of a genius art, done in 7 years by American journalist Phoebe Hoban. Which, to reconstruct in detail the alienating existence of graffiti, has interviewed more than 200 people, including family members.
"Basquiat was not a normal - Hoban writes in the preface - lived on the style and get paid. But in some things he was unbeatable, hundreds of things. In the drawings, paintings and notes that described how a Rorschach test. Basquiat lived his paintings: we slept over, we walked over, we ate on it. "
Phoebe Hoban, Basquiat's brief life and brilliant art of a genius, Castelvecchi Publisher.
The Fondation Beyeler (Basel) last May, he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the artist.
Over one hundred works, including paintings, drawings and objects, tracing the career of the young painter who died in '88. The exhibition included major works, along with works on paper and sculptures-objects, divided into five main stages that become a strategy to write his history.
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