{"product_id":"65187-basquiat","title":"Basquiat","description":"Countless publications and exhibitions address Jean-Michel Basquiat’s life and work, yet one episode has remained largely unexamined: In the summer of 1982, the New York artist traveled to Modena, Italy, at the invitation of gallerist Emilio Mazzoli, for one of his early solo exhibitions in Europe. Within a few days, he painted a group of large-format paintings there that not only surpassed his previous work in terms of scale. Each at least two by four meters in size, they mark the transition from graffiti spraying on the streets of Manhattan to painting on canvas. At the same time, they express the discovery of an identity as an artist. The paintings—including masterpieces that are now considered the most outstanding of his oeuvre—were never shown together. This catalog illuminates Basquiat’s stay in Italy as a decisive moment in his career and brings the eight paintings together again for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is also available in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/products\/65188-basquiat?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=3bb574e1c\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960–1988, New York) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Coming from the post-punk underground scene in Lower Manhattan, he attracted the attention of the art world in 1981 at the legendary group exhibition New York\/New Wave. In nine extremely productive years, he created a body of work that formulates a new visual language of gestural-expressive painting and dense script imagery, and repeatedly reflects on the oppression, marginalization, and exploitation of African Americans.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977109205256,"sku":"9783775755085","price":38.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775755085_e06229bc-b378-42e4-8b60-19846463205a.jpg?v=1744287492","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/65187-basquiat","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}