{"product_id":"65188-basquiat","title":"Basquiat","description":"Countless publications and exhibitions have explored Jean-Michel Basquiat's life and work, yet one episode has largely been overlooked until now: 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 their scale. Each at least two by four meters in size, they mark the transition from graffiti spraying in the streets of Manhattan to painting on canvas. At the same time, they express the finding of an identity as an artist. These paintings – including masterpieces that are now considered among the most outstanding of his oeuvre – have never been shown together. This catalog sheds light on Basquiat's stay in Italy as a decisive moment in his career and brings the eight paintings together for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is also available in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/products\/65187-basquiat?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=8bc689919\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eGerman\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960–1988, New York) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Emerging 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 highly productive years, he created a body of work that formulated a new visual language of gestural-expressive painting and dense textual imagery, and repeatedly reflected on the oppression, exclusion, and exploitation of African Americans.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45526290268424,"sku":"9783775755092","price":38.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775755092_525dda73-5268-4fd1-8e1d-61406009f1d8.jpg?v=1744288298","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/65188-basquiat","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}