Paradoxically, it is the very act of creating these representations that conjures a positive corporeal valence between the artist and his sense of self or identity. So I said, "Well, what's she like?" [32][33] In March 1982, he painted in Modena, Italy, for his second Italian exhibition. "'Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time' on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. [111] The Lotte Museum of Art will host the first major exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat in Seoul from October 2020 to February 2021. [85]:439–449 The sickle in the center panel is a direct reference to the slave trade in the United States, and slave labor under the plantation system. "[67] Further investigation by Fred Hoffman of pieces like Masonic Lodge 1983 and Untitled (1983) in his book The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat reveals a deeper interest in the artist's fascination with heads that proves an evolution in the artist's oeuvre from one of raw power to one of more refined cognizance. In 1967, Basquiat started attending Saint Ann's School, an arts-oriented exclusive private school. [48] Their joint exhibition Paintings shown at Tony Shafrazi Gallery caused a rift in their friendship after it was slandered by critics, and Basquiat was referred to as Warhol's mascot. [19] In October 1979, at A's, Basquiat showed his SAMO montages using color Xerox copies of his works. 10,295 listeners. [35][36] Starting in November 1982, Basquiat worked from the ground-floor display and studio space Larry Gagosian had built below his Venice, California home. [3][11]:37 He slept on park benches in Tompkins Square Park, and was arrested and returned to the care of his father within a week. [144] A 2009 documentary film, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, directed by Tamra Davis, was first screened as part of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was shown on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2011. [65], —Kellie Jones, Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel in the (Re)Mix[66], According to Franklin Sirmans, Basquiat appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. Basquiat drew constantly, and often used objects around him as surfaces when paper was not immediately at hand. It makes you wonder, did the artist become famous because of their depictions of Greek mythology or did the painting become famous because of the artist? We can read his pictures without strenuous effort—the words, the images, the colors and the construction—but we cannot quite fathom the point they belabor. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever exhibit at Documenta in Kassel. That same year, Basquiat formed the noise rock band Test Pattern—which was later renamed Gray—which played at Arleen Schloss's open space, A's. "[88] In a similar vein, Jordana Moore Saggese states the action represented in the paintings of Basquiat have been referred to as a tribute to jazz indicating that, "Parker, Gillespie, and the other musicians of the bebop era infamously appropriated both the harmonic structures of jazz standards, using them as a structure for their own songs, and repeated similar note patterns across several improvisations.