The only black to break into the very white and closed world of contemporary New York art, Jean-Michel Basquiat decides in many of his paintings to pay homage to black figures such as boxers and jazzmen, as if he were rebuilding himself. a genealogy, telling another story of America. At the sources of this story, Africa, from which some of its ancestors were torn away. Griots, masks, rock carvings invite themselves into his work.
with the painter Ernest DukuAnd Vincent Bessierescurator of the Basquiat Soundtracks exhibition (Philharmonie de Paris, April to July 2023).