Bilbao Guggenheim opens exhibition on the painter … – ElTiempo.com

The exhibition “Jean-Michel Basquiat: now is the time ‘is organized in sections that explore the urban universe, his vision of the movement for American civil rights and blacks history and its combating racism or his close friendship and collaboration with Andy Warhol.

Before arriving in Bilbao, these paintings and drawings by Basquiat, one of the three most sought today-contemporary painters were exposed in Canada, at the Museum of Fine Arts of Ontario (AGO).

His Austrian curators Dieter Buchhart and Spanish Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya have tried to show the Basquiat beyond their graffiti and his pop.

subversive painter who died at age 27 and won glory in less than ten years, culture grew up in a middle class family in Brooklyn and was developing his love for art under the leadership especially of a Puerto Rican mother and graphic artist who had to museums.

“The exhibition reveals an artist with many references that deal not only with hip hop and graffiti but also the history of art, classical music and jazz, “said Rodriguez Fominaya.

” I have rediscovered Basquiat as a conceptual painter ” He added the commissioner. “It makes specific references to art history references, including anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (…) His works are as composite sediment strata (…) should look away, but close” he said.

“In one work there are dozens and sometimes hundreds of words at the same time,” he adds, stressing the importance of language to Basquiat, who died in 1988.

The exhibition will be open until November 1, includes the paintings’ Moses and the Egyptians “(” Moses and the Egyptians’, 1982) and ‘Man from Naples’ (‘ Man Naples’, 1982), part of a collection of 127 works around “the great contemporary artists,” particularly those that symbolize the cultural ties between the United States and Europe.

“Basquiat is very poorly represented in museums. At the time these works were acquired very quickly by private collectors and now have a market value so high that it is almost impossible for a museum they could be acquiring occurred,” he added Rodriguez Fominaya.

Bilbao (Spain)
AFP