ART & DESIGN A SEASONAL
ART & DESIGN A SEASONAL COMPENDIUM TO SARTORIAL FLAIR, ENCHANTING JEWELS AND HAUTE HORLOGERIE PHOTO JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, A PANEL OF EXPERTS, 1982, COURTESY THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. © THE ESTATE OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT. LICENSED BY ARTESTAR, NEW YORK. PHOTO: MFA, DOUGLAS M. PARKER SHOW TIME Blockbuster Basquiat Newly crowned as the most expensive American artist at auction with a 0m sale in May, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work gets a fresh look this year in a major exhibition, Boom for Real, which travels from London to Frankfurt. Curator ELEANOR NAIRNE spoke to Brian Noone about the multifaceted artist, his burgeoning reputation and the unorthodox concept of a show that features more than 120 pieces, including many paintings coming from both public and private collections across the globe Basquait‘s A Panel of Experts, 1982, on loan to the London and Frankfurt shows from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ON BASQUIAT’S ART The work manages to feel more contemporary as the years go by, which is extraordinary and so opposite to how many bodies of work feel. The art is fascinating for all the ways in which it engages you and incites you and antagonises you – but also that it wants to be encrypted in certain ways. There are all sorts of evocative gameplaying going on in there. ON PUBLIC RECEPTION People who get it have always got it. Generally, I find that people who have been with the work in the flesh either get it or admire it. The big problem has been that not enough people have been able to see the work in the flesh. ON THE EXHIBITION It is thinking about Basquiat in a cross-arts context. In the late 1970s post-punk, new CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM 69
