Jean-Michel Basquiat – Xerox

Well-known at the age of 20 for his drawings and corrosive work
towards the present, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) upset the New
York art scene in the early eighties. He owes his worldwide
status to highly expressive works that tackle subjects comparable to
racism, politics or social hypocrisy. Though his profession was
abruptly interrupted by his premature demise on the age of 27, his
work continues to exert super influence. Revealed
by Hatje
Cantz Publishing in collaboration with the
modern art gallery Nahmad
Contemporary (New York), Jean-Michel Basquiat –
Xerox gives an in-depth evaluation of the extraordinary physique of
work that the artist created utilizing Xerox photocopies as the primary
medium and focus of the composition.

These immersive paintings glued from Xerox embody the
extraordinary intuition of Basquiat when it comes to visible
language. Their uncooked and integral compositions incorporate recycled
and reworked signs and inscriptions from the artist’s on a regular basis
experiences, together with motifs from his earlier works. The
intricate tangle of content material in this collection foreshadows the
copy-and-paste sampling characteristic of the next Internet
and post-Web generations, positioning Basquiat as a pioneer of
the pre-digital period. The 216-page e-book, with essays by Eric
Robertson and Christopher D. Stackhouse,online
store of Hatje
Cantz editions, as well as on Amazon.com .