Basquiat Exhibition Made in Japan

Basquiat Exhibition Made in Japan is Experience games Museum event held in Japan.

Name of performance: Basquiat Exhibition Made in Japan
Venue: Mori Arts Center Gallery
Open: 2019/05/28 (Tuesday) 10:00
Notes:
[Period] September 21 (Sat)
-November 17 (Sun) 2019 【Closed day】 September 24 (Tue)
【Opening time】 10:00 to 20:00
※ September 25 (Wed) Closed on Thursday, October 26 (Tuesday) and October 21 (Mon) on 17:00
※ 30 minutes before admission is closed

■ This is a reception only for advance tickets. Please note that the Basquia Exhibition Supporter ticket, the advance ticket pair ticket, and the ticket with pictorial record are separately accepted.
※ The sale period of advance tickets will be from May 28 (Tuesday) to September 20 (Fri). The ticket will be sold from September 21 (Sat).
※ Please check the date and time of the event and purchase for a valid ticket during the period.
※ Preschooler free of charge
Limited number of tickets: You can book up to 8 tickets in a single application. Application limit 4 times.
Type of seats and fees:
　Advance tickets (general): ¥ 1,900
　Advance tickets (high school and university students): ¥ 1,400
　Advance tickets (small and middle school students): ¥ 900

Jean-Michel Basquiat (French: [ December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an influential American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the 1980s, his neo-expressionist paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.
Basquiat's art focused on "suggestive dichotomies", such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.

Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a tool for introspection and for identifying with his experiences in the black community of his time, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism. Basquiat's visual poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. He died of a heroin overdose at his art studio at the age of 27. On May 18, 2017, at a Sotheby's auction, a 1982 painting by Basquiat depicting a black skull with red and black rivulets (Untitled) set a new record high for any American artist at auction, selling for $110.5 million. Basquiat's art has inspired many in the hip hop music community such as Jay-Z.

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Tokyo (Japanese: [toːkjoː] , English /ˈ t oʊ k i . oʊ / ), officially Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government. Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Formerly known as Edo, it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters. It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture (東京府 , Tōkyō-fu) and the city of Tokyo (東京市 , Tōkyō-shi) .

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• Mori Arts Center Gallery
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  日本、〒106-0032 東京都港区六本木６丁目１０−１ 六本木ヒルズ森タワー  Map

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