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An angled, three-quarter view of a hardcover art book on a white background. The cover features a vibrant and chaotic neo-expressionist painting in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The artwork is a mix of bright orange and blue, overlaid with black, red, and white graffiti-style markings, symbols, and text.
A two-page spread from an art book about Jean-Michel Basquiat. The left page displays a close-up of his vibrant painting with a turquoise background, featuring abstract black and white shapes, red spray-painted numbers, and the black text THE GUILT OF GOLD TEETH. The right page is titled Jean-Michel Basquiat in Modena and contains an article in German.
A two-page spread from an art book showing Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting, Untitled (Woman with Roman Torso [Venus]). The vibrant neo-expressionist work features a dark, crudely drawn woman on the left and a headless yellow classical torso on the right. Between them are painted fruits like bananas and grapes against a bright blue and yellow background with a sun at the top. The canvas is filled with energetic brushstrokes, numbers, and paint drips.
A photograph in an open book shows artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and gallerist Annina Nosei standing in his studio in 1982. Basquiat, on the right, wears paint-splattered clothes, while Nosei wears a black dress and a pink cardigan. They stand on a paint-covered floor in front of three large, colorful neo-expressionist paintings of skeletal figures.
A rectangular canvas of a neo-expressionist painting on a white background. The top half is orange with the black-scrawled text PESO NETO inside a box. The bottom half is a vibrant blue with white spray-painted dollar signs, red drips, and the words GOLD TEETH written in black at the bottom left.
A two-page spread from an art exhibition catalog. The left page, in German, lists lenders and partners under the headings Leihgeber and Partner. The right page is a table of contents for an exhibition on Jean-Michel Basquiat, listing chapter titles like The Modena Paintings and specific artworks with their page numbers.
A page from a book featuring a black and white photograph of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in his studio in 1982. He is shown in profile, with his signature dreadlocks, intensely focused on applying white paint with a brush to a large, abstract canvas. The image is placed next to a body of text in German.
A two-page spread from a book, pages 22 and 23, with German text in black on a white background. The layout features standard text columns and two large, prominent pull quotes in a bold, sans-serif font that dominate the pages.
A wide, neo-expressionist painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, titled Untitled (Devil). The chaotic composition features a large, black, horned head with wide white eyes and bared teeth at the center. The background is a frenetic mix of red, pink, and orange brushstrokes, overlaid with vertical drips of green, yellow, and black paint, creating a raw and energetic scene.
A two-page spread from an art book. The left page features German text and a small inset image of a red shirt with a line drawing labeled Cassius Clay. The right page shows Jean-Michel Basquiat's large, abstract painting, Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, with energetic black, red, and white figures against a vibrant yellow background.
An open page from an art book about Jean-Michel Basquiat. The left side features German text and a small image of his painting Untitled, 1982. The right side shows a large, vibrant detail of his painting Profit I, depicting a neo-expressionist figure with a red torso and a raised black hand against a dark, scribbled background.
A two-page spread in an art book. The left page features a neo-expressionist painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat on a black background. The canvas is covered with energetic white, gold, and light blue scribbles, grids, numbers, and abstract shapes. The right page contains a column of German text analyzing the artwork.
A page from an art book, with a neo-expressionist painting on the left and a column of German text on the right. The painting has a peach-colored background with patches of blue and is covered in scrawled text, including ASPURIA and PESO NETO. A thick, black horizontal line crosses the upper half over a crudely drawn face.
A two-page spread from an art book. The left page shows a close-up of an abstract, neo-expressionist painting with thick, energetic brushstrokes in red, white, brown, and black. The right page has a block of text in German, with the large, bold title: Basquiat, Cy Twombly und die Transavanguardia.
A page spread from a book about Jean-Michel Basquiat. The left page shows a photograph of his graffiti on a wall, which reads LIFE IS CONFUSING AT THIS POINT—SAMO©. The right page features German text under the title Chronologie – Basquiat in Modena.
A black and white photograph of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York, 1980. He has a mohawk hairstyle and looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. He stands in front of a storefront with a metal accordion gate and a sign above it with stenciled lettering for COLOR, 35 MM SLIDES, and XEROX.
A page from a German art catalog on a dark grey background, displaying eight neo-expressionist paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1982. The artworks are arranged in two columns of thumbnails, each with accompanying German text. The words Ausgestellte and Werke are printed vertically on the left and right sides, respectively.
Basquiat
The Modena Paintings
€ 38.00
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By (artist): Jean-Michel Basquiat
Designed by: Christoph Steinegger
Edited by: Iris Hasler und Sam Keller für die Fondation Beyeler
June 2023, 126 Pages, 38 Photos
Paperback Swiss Binding
236mm x 272mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5508-5

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de


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| 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, however, focuses on eight paintings: In the summer of 1982, Basquiat traveled 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 meters in size, they mark his 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.

This book is also available in English.

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 People of Color.
EXHIBITION
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
June 11 - August 27, 2023
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