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04/06/2023 - 07/30/2023
Philharmonie de Paris - Cité de la Musique
221, avenue Jean Jaurès
75019 Paris
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/activity/exposition/24617-basquiat-soundtracks
The Philharmonie de Paris is organizing the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful relationship with music. A feast for the ears as well as the eyes, Basquiat Soundtrack presents a rich and heroic score to the meteoric output of a peerless artist, offering new insight into how his visual work was informed by music – from Beethoven to Madonna, zydeco to John Cage, Louis Armstrong to the Zulu Nation.
Bringing together an extraordinary ensemble of almost one hundred artworks, this exhibition is an immersive experience, plunging us into the places and sounds that shaped Basquiat’s artistic evolution and fed his inspiration. The exhibition’s bold scenography shows his pictorial inventiveness in a new light, in which xeroxes are on the canvas what samples are to a song, and mixing appears as a structuring principle. Alongside the artworks, Basquiat Soundtrack presents rare archival documents, emblematic instruments and never-before-seen audiovisual media, providing new perspective on Basquiat’s work which, though closely linked to club culture – from the underground to the most flamboyant of 1980s nightclubs – has also revealed its universal dimension.
Philharmonie de Paris - Cité de la Musique
221, avenue Jean Jaurès
75019 Paris
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/activity/exposition/24617-basquiat-soundtracks
The Philharmonie de Paris is organizing the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful relationship with music. A feast for the ears as well as the eyes, Basquiat Soundtrack presents a rich and heroic score to the meteoric output of a peerless artist, offering new insight into how his visual work was informed by music – from Beethoven to Madonna, zydeco to John Cage, Louis Armstrong to the Zulu Nation.
Bringing together an extraordinary ensemble of almost one hundred artworks, this exhibition is an immersive experience, plunging us into the places and sounds that shaped Basquiat’s artistic evolution and fed his inspiration. The exhibition’s bold scenography shows his pictorial inventiveness in a new light, in which xeroxes are on the canvas what samples are to a song, and mixing appears as a structuring principle. Alongside the artworks, Basquiat Soundtrack presents rare archival documents, emblematic instruments and never-before-seen audiovisual media, providing new perspective on Basquiat’s work which, though closely linked to club culture – from the underground to the most flamboyant of 1980s nightclubs – has also revealed its universal dimension.