The Schirn regularly hosts public tours. During a 60-minute tour, art experts introduce the most important works as well as the concept of the respective exhibition. "You can only see what you know," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe already stated. And maybe you'll feel like looking at the exhibition again with different eyes after the tour and deepening your newly gained insights a little.
Registration on site, from one hour before the start of the tour
To the exhibition:
Blood, Baseball, Basquiat! This is how a newcomer with no academic training conquered 1970s New York.
The young man who came out of the post-punk underground scene of Lower Manhattan is now considered 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 erudition that runs through the entire body of work in large fragments of writing and text.
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/
