Fondation Louis Vuitton to Hold Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol Collaboration Exhibition
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, OP OP, 1984-1985 Acrylic and oilstick on canvas, 287 × 417 cm Collection Bischofberger, Männedorf-Zurich, Suisse © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New-York. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by ADAGP, Paris 2023
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In 2018, the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris) hosted the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition, which proved to be a great success, attracting an estimated 700,000 visitors. This year, the Foundation will continue its exploration of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, highlighting his collaboration with Andy Warhol. The exhibition, entitled Basquiat × Warhol. Painting four hands is scheduled to open from April 5 to August 28, 2023.
Between 1984 and 1985, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) created approximately 160 paintings together in tandem “à quatre mains.” Keith Haring (1958-1990), who witnessed their friendship and collaboration, later spoke of a “conversation through painting instead of words” and of two minds merging to create a “third distinctive and unique mind.”
Curated by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer in collaboration with Olivier Michelon, curator at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Basquiat × Warhol. Painting four hands exhibition brings together more than three hundred works and documents, including eighty canvases co-signed by the two artists. In order to evoke the energy of the New York downtown art scene of the 1980s, the exhibition also features works by Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf, Michael Halsband, and other significant artists.
Basquiat admired Warhol as a key figure in the art world, a pioneer of a new language and a groundbreaking relationship with pop culture. Warhol, in turn, found in Basquiat a renewed interest in painting. Thanks to him, he returned to painting manually on a large scale.
The exhibition will feature a dialogue of styles and forms that will also address crucial issues, such as the integration of the African-American community into the narrative of North America - a continent in which Warhol was a leading icon-maker. There is no doubt that in the spring of 2023, Basquiat × Warhol. Painting four hands will be the most important exhibition ever dedicated to this extraordinary collaboration.
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