Albertina hosts first comprehensive museum retrospective devoted to Basquiat in Austria

A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat (New York, 1960 - 1988), among the most important exponents of graffiti art and neo-expressionism, will run from September 9, 2022 to January 8, 2023 at theAlbertina in Vienna.

The exhibition entitled Basquiat: The Retrospective aims to be the first comprehensive museum retrospective presenting Basquiat’s extraordinary work in Austria. It will feature approximately fifty works from important public and private collections, through which it is intended to provide new insights into his visual language.

With his works Basquiat changed the art world in the 1980s and combined various genres and artistic disciplines within his practice. Today, more than three decades after his untimely death, Basquiat’s art remains relevant and particularly significant in terms of subject matter as well as aesthetics. His images are often political statements denouncing racism,social injustice and consumerism. He was inspired by street art, comic books, children’s drawings, and advertising and combined his own Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage and African American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with classical motifs and contemporary heroes such as athletes and musicians. The use of linguistic signs and symbols is an integral part of Basquiat’s art, from his earliest drawings to his poetic-conceptual graffiti, from his notebooks to his later drawings and paintings. They are images laden with jarring figures and bright colors: colors that are used by the artist in a very instinctive way, squeezing tubes of paint directly onto the support. Her painting seems to be a visceral action dictated by an inner urgency.

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Hours: Daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Image: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (1982; 193.5 x 239 cm; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen) Photo by Studio Tromp © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York

Albertina hosts first comprehensive museum retrospective devoted to Basquiat in Austria

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