ExhibitionApril 25, 2023
Basquiat × Warhol. Painting Four Hands
In 2018, the Fondation featured the "Jean-Michel Basquiat" exhibition. It continues its inquiry into the artist's work, but this time delves into his collaboration with Andy Warhol.
Between 1984 and 1985, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) created around 160 paintings together, "à quatre mains," including some of the largest works produced during their respective careers. Keith Haring (1958-1990), who witnessed their friendship and collaboration production, would go on to speak of a "conversation occurring through painting, instead of words," and of two minds merging to create a "third distinctive and unique mind."
"Basquiat × Warhol. Painting Four Hands" is the most important exhibition ever dedicated to this body of work and brings together more than three hundred works and documents, including eighty canvases jointly signed by the two artists. The exhibition presents individual works by each and a set of works by other major artists (Futura 2000, Michael Halsband, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf...…) to suggest a view of the New York downtown art scene of the 1980s.
Basquiat admired Warhol as an elder, a key art world personality, and a pop art pioneer. Warhol, in turn, found in Basquiat a renewed interest in painting. Thanks to him, he went back to painting manually on a very large scale. Warhol's subjects (newspapers, logos of General Electric, Paramount, and the Olympic Games) serve as the basis for the whole series of artworks that will punctuate the exhibition.
Between 1984 and 1985, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) created around 160 paintings together, "à quatre mains," including some of the largest works produced during their respective careers. Keith Haring (1958-1990), who witnessed their friendship and collaboration production, would go on to speak of a "conversation occurring through painting, instead of words," and of two minds merging to create a "third distinctive and unique mind."
"Basquiat × Warhol. Painting Four Hands" is the most important exhibition ever dedicated to this body of work and brings together more than three hundred works and documents, including eighty canvases jointly signed by the two artists. The exhibition presents individual works by each and a set of works by other major artists (Futura 2000, Michael Halsband, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf...…) to suggest a view of the New York downtown art scene of the 1980s.
Basquiat admired Warhol as an elder, a key art world personality, and a pop art pioneer. Warhol, in turn, found in Basquiat a renewed interest in painting. Thanks to him, he went back to painting manually on a very large scale. Warhol's subjects (newspapers, logos of General Electric, Paramount, and the Olympic Games) serve as the basis for the whole series of artworks that will punctuate the exhibition.
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