Blood, Baseball, Basquiat! This is how a newcomer with no academic training conquered New York in the 1970s.
The young man who came out of the post-punk underground scene of Lower Manhattan is now one of the most important artists of the 20th century: Jean-Michel Basquiat. Together with Al Diaz, he left graffiti messages on building walls under the pseudonym SAMO©, drew with his own blood, collaged baseball and postcards, designed his own clothes, painted on doors, window frames and on huge canvases. His vivid, raw imagery springs from an almost encyclopedic literacy, with large fragments of writing and text throughout the work.
More than thirty years after Basquiat's last presentation in a public collection in Germany, the SCHIRN is dedicating a survey exhibition to the US artist - in cooperation with the Barbican Art Gallery, London. For the first time, Basquiat's relationship to music, text, film, and television will also be made clear in an overarching cultural context.
Text source and further information on this event at: http://www.schirn.de/ausstellungen/2018/basquiat/
