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Supreme 2013 Fall/Winter Jean-Michel Basquiat Lookbook

Supreme 2013 Fall/Winter Jean-Michel Basquiat Lookbook

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For 2013 fall/winter, Supreme presents a striking collection with Jean-Michel Basquiat at its center. With nods at the late great artist’s acrylic and crayon paintings from the early ’80s, outerwear pieces like the M-65 jacket see compelling rehashes,while button-up shirts call upon Basquiat’s trademark handwriting elsewhere. Rounded up by a hoodie and T-shirt range which features portrait images shot by James Van Der Zee, the fall/winter collection will unveil in-store in NY, LA, London and online on September 26, and Japan from September 28.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Andy Warhol

Who was Jean-Michel Basquiat?

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. His career spanned just one short decade, yet he is considered one of the best-known artists of his generation and one of only a small number of Hispanic-African-American artists to achieve international recognition. Graduating from subway walls to canvas and from the streets of New York to the galleries of SoHo, the artist and his work remain a mystery to those who seek explanation.

Jean-Michel hit the streets of New York at a young age where art became an outlet. Also known by the tag “SAMO,” Jean-Michel’s unique brand of graffiti was found throughout Manhattan as early as 1976. “His work from the first consisted of conceptual, enigmatic combinations of words and symbols, executed with the curt simplicity of a late Roman inscription”, according toHenry Geldzahler, longtime curator of twentieth-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jean-Michel was 18 when he approached Geldzahler and Andy Warhol in a SoHo restaurant. He sold Andy a postcard for one dollar but was dismissed by Geldzahler as “too young.” Less than three years later (1981) he was invited by artist and filmmaker, Diego Cortez, to participate in the P.S. 1 show, (Institute for Art and Urban Resources), alongside more than twenty artists including Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kenny Sharf and Andy Warhol.

In early 1982 Jean-Michel took the art world by storm with his one-man show at Annina Nosei’s gallery. This momentum propelled him to the forefront of the Neo-Expressionist movement which was characterized by intense subjectivity of feeling and aggressively raw handling of materials. Jean-Michel, accustomed to pushing the envelope in all aspects of his life, had something special to offer the neo-expressionist admirer: “I cross out words so you will see them more – the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.”

By the age of 24 Jean-Michel would be a veteran of one-man shows under the guidance of such notable art dealers as Nosei, Larry Gagosian, Mary Boone andBruno Bischofberger. Bischofberger introduced Jean-Michel’s art overseas as well as orchestrated the joint collaboration of Warhol and Basquiat in 1985 which involved some 60 works.

In the end Jean-Michel preferred drugs and women over the cultivated art world and was unable to balance fame and fortune with his personal demons. He passed away on August 12th 1988, at the age of 27, the result of a drug overdose.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat @ Gagosian Hong Kong Recap

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Jean-Michel Basquiat may have died at age 27, but the Brooklyn-born artist remains one of the most original of his generation and an acutely relevant figure some 25 years after his passing. Following an exhibition of his work in Chelsea earlier this year, Gagosian Gallery is playing host to a selection of Basquiat’s paintings for the first time in Hong Kong. The artist was born in 1960 to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother and left his Brooklyn, New York home at the age of 15. Taking to the streets, he began a tragically short career that started with graffiti scrawled on downtown Manhattan walls — usually under the name of SAMO — and culminated in solo shows in galleries around the world. Basquiat’s work, meanwhile, earned praise and critical acclaim for its fusion of drawing, painting and poetry and its ability to balance aesthetics with acerbic commentary on the harsh realities of race, culture and society. Here’s a look at the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at Gagosian Hong Kong, which began on May 21 and will run until August 10; browse the images above for a peek or drop by the address below should you be in the area.

Gagosian Gallery
7/F Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street, Central
Hong Kong

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