Serile de marți vor fi dedicate conceptului de Doc Art, proiectii de
filme documentare ce sunt dedicate artelor contemporane, sub mai toate
formele lor.
Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive
documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist.
In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the
graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time,
and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star status.” He achieves
critical and commercial success, though he is constantly confronted by
racism from his peers. In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends
and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly
in 1987. Basquiat’s heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose
in 1988 at the age of 27. The artist was 25 years old at the height of
his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars.
With compassion and psychological insight, Tamra Davis details the
mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of
enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the
downtown scene he seemed to embody.
www.jean-michelbasquiattheradiantchild.com/index.html
