BASQUIAT Graphic design Lacaton and Vassal

Lacaton and Vassal

At the end of the 1950s

Il n’y a plus de notion d’extérieur

along with a selection of furniture designed by young contemporary designers

provided there is the will to get out of classic thought patterns

BASQUIAT Graphic design Lacaton and VassalThe first African American artist to achieve art superstardom, Jean Michel Basquiat (1960 1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally leaving a portfolio of about 2,000 drawings on a subway car) in the space of just eight years. Through his street roots in graffiti, Basquiat helped to establish new possibilities for figurative and expressionistic painting, breaking the white male stranglehold of