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Catharsis, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1983

29 March 2023 in Art Comment

Catharsis, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1983

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Catharsis

signed, titled and dated “Jean-Michel Basquiat CATHARSIS 1983” on the reverse
acrylic and oilstick on canvas, in three parts
72 x 93 3/4 in. (182.9 x 238.1 cm)
Executed in 1983

Provenance
Marsha Fogel, New York
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Phillips de Pury & Co., New York, May 12, 2005, lot 46
Private Collection
Christie’s, New York, November 8, 2011, lot 50
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited
New York, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 21 – November 25, 1989, no. 8, p. 9 (illustrated)

Literature
Tony Shafrazi, Jeffrey Deitch and Richard Marshall, eds., Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, 1999, p. 181 (illustrated)
Richard Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, 2000, no. 7, pp. 158-159 (illustrated)

Artist Biography
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American, 1960 – 1988

One of the most famous American artists of all time, Jean-Michel Basquiat first gained notoriety as a subversive graffiti-artist and street poet in the late 1970s. Operating under the pseudonym SAMO, he emblazoned the abandoned walls of the city with his unique blend of enigmatic symbols, icons and aphorisms. A voracious autodidact, by 1980, at 22-years of age, Basquiat began to direct his extraordinary talent towards painting and drawing. His powerful works brilliantly captured the zeitgeist of the 1980s New York underground scene and catapulted Basquiat on a dizzying meteoric ascent to international stardom that would only be put to a halt by his untimely death in 1988.

Basquiat’s iconoclastic oeuvre revolves around the human figure. Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African-American and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources.

Phillips

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Revue Faire, no. 39, 40, 41

27 March 2023 in Magazines Comment

Revue Faire no. 39, 40, 41

Revue Faire no. 41

Revue Faire no. 40

Revue Faire no. 39

Revue Faire, no. 39, 40, 41

Faire is a bi-monthly publication dedicated to graphic design. Produced by Empire, the publishing arm of French design studio Syndicat (designers Sacha Léopold and François Havegeer), Faire is aimed at students as well as researchers and professional designers. Each issue addresses a specific object or theme and is written by a renowned author.

This anthology set, volume 11, includes three issues, numbers 39 through 41:

n°39 — A series of cards and performances: My Calling (Card) #1 #2 #3 by Adrian Piper. By Jérôme Dupeyrat

My Calling (Card) #1 #2 #3 (1986-1990; 2012), by Adrian Piper (born in 1948), is a series of prints in the form of calling cards and performances designed by the artist as a tool to confront her counterparts with their sexist and racist actions within different relational and social contexts: a dinner, a party, a bar…

Similar to other conceptual, performative, relational and textual art works by Adrian Piper that expose dissent and even conflict in order to move past them, the “calling cards” are part of the Piper’s approach to identity. Her works confront the responsibility of those who, in the face of this identity, consciously or unconsciously reproduce the mechanisms of discrimination and oppression.

20 pages

n°40 — A Collaboration : Les Urbaines & Eurostandard. By Manon Bruet

Since opening in 1996, the interdisciplinary festival in Lausanne, Les Urbaines, has collaborated with numerous Swiss graphic designers. Following Guillaume Chuard and Renato Zülli (2011), Maximage (2012–2015), and Daniel Hättenschwiller and Thomas Petit (2016) among others, Eurostandard took charge of the visual identity of the three editions from 2017 to 2019.

To constitute this triptych, which had been imagined as a whole, for each event the studio proposed to explore a new technique originally intended to produce deformed selfies. On one hand the use of this procedure allowed them to question modes of self-representation and thus produce a discourse profoundly rooted in its time. On the other, it allowed them to generate unique visuals and to inscribe absolutely their identity in three steps, each one following on from the previous one.

This issue provides the opportunity to look back, through the words of the graphic designers as well as their client, at these three years of collaboration, and more broadly, at the festival’s different visual identities which, when taken together, seem to describe a certain landscape of Swiss graphic design.

24 pages

n°41 — The Image of Fashion: Forget (fashion) photography? By Aude Fellay

Fashion photography has to fight for our attention. Memes, selfies, stories, reels: the competition is fierce—and happening at a time when it seems increasingly difficult to speak of photography at all. Should we grapple with photography anew from the perspective of its afterlife, as some have argued in the field of photographic theory? What would it mean to “forget” fashion photography? By drawing on recent debates about the condition of photography, this essay examines images of fashion and a number of contemporary phenomena that speak to the need to think of the fashion image anew.

20 pages

Published by Editions Empire, 2022
Bilingual, in French and English

64 pages total
Each issue separately bound
B&W and color images
8.25 × 11.75 inches

Draw Down

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Steven Klein

21 March 2023 in Books Comment

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Steven Klein

Steven Klein, edited and with an essay by Mark Holborn

As featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, New Yorker, The Guardian, and The Telegraph.

The first and only monograph on Klein, whose hyperreal and sexually charged images have captivated viewers for 30 years.

One of the fashion industry’s most cunning provocateurs, photographer Steven Klein has created many of the most iconic images of our time. Klein’s photographs blur the line between fiction and reality, resulting in stunning tableaux that only exist within his fantastical worlds. Although his images include some of the most photographed people in the world, they disappear into the narrative of Klein’s imagination.

The book includes images originally published in magazines such as Interview, W, Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, Vogue Hommes, i-D, among many others, and iconic faces such as those of Madonna, Brad Pitt, Kim Kardashian, and Rihanna.

Klein has worked with notable clients including Balenciaga, Dolce & Gabbana, Tom Ford, Alexander McQueen, and Louis Vuitton. His work has also been exhibited at galleries and museums globally such as Deitch Projects, Gagosian, and the International Center of Photography, among others. Edited by author Mark Holborn, this first survey of Klein’s work showcases his extravagant, hyperreal creations and illuminates his singular vision.

Format: Hardback
Size: 356 × 305 mm (14 × 12 in)
Pages: 464 pp
Illustrations: 250 illustrations

Phaidon

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TEd’A, Guillem and Cati’s Home, Montuïri 2022

20 March 2023 in Architecture Comment

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Guillem and Cati’s Home, Montuïri 2022

Photography © Luis Díaz Díaz

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Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait II (After the life mask of William Blake), 1955

15 March 2023 in Art Comment

Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait II (After the life mask of William Blake), 1955

Francis Bacon
Study for Portrait II (After the life mask of William Blake)
1955
Oil on canvas
61 x 51cm

Tate Modern, London
© Estate of Francis Bacon / SODRAC (2013)

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Kinfolk Issue Forty-Seven

15 March 2023 in Magazines Comment

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Kinfolk Issue Forty-Seven
The Well-Being Issue

Rather than advocating for any particular miracle cure, Issue Forty-Seven focuses on well-being as an innate balance to be safeguarded. You’ll meet inspiring people for whom the well-being of others is paramount, featuring Walt Odets on the power of therapy, Chani Nicholas and Sonya Passi on financial well-being, Julia Bainbridge on sobriety, and Alice Sheppard on dance as a way to commune with the body—even when it hurts. Plus: interviews with fashion icon Farida Khelfa, tattoo artist Dr. Woo, superstar stylist Veneda Carter, and much more.

192 pages
Offset-printed and perfect bound
Full color on uncoated and coated paper
Printed in the United Kingdom

Kinfolk

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