Exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Albertina

More+More+ ♦ Published: January 3, 2023; 22:52 ♦ (Vindobona)

ALBERTINA presents "Jean-Michel Basquiat. The Retrospective" the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat for the first time in Austria. An exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Albertina lasts only until 08.01. 2023.

The exhibition at the ALBERTINA is the first comprehensive museum retrospective of Jean-Michel Basquiat's extraordinary work in Austria. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Hannes Sallmutter [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]

The first great and to this day most famous African-American superstar of art puts an end to minimalism and conceptual art in one fell swoop during his short creative period with concrete poetry and his painting and drawing language influenced by graffiti, cartoons and drawings.

Everything planned and meticulously organized in art is swept away in his work: this too is a symbol…