BOOM FOR REAL - GALLERY NOTES

Keith haring 1983

Famous inside an angelic halo above hearings head, basquiat establishes his status

Two angles positioning from bio book

Maripol sx-70 polaroids 79-84 backlit halo

Artists have a responsibility to their work to Roland's it above the vernacular. Perhaps it is the critics job to sort out from the the melee of popular style the individuals who defie the style, who perhaps inaugurated it (where is taki) and to bring them to public attention.

Rene ricard the radiant child, artforum vol 20 no 4 December 1981

The mudd club films sashimi shows

No wave on a sound system set up by Brian eno

For punks posers and he ultra hip - people magazine

Sound vs visuals silence swap opposites

Glenn o brien tv party
Bowie
Iggy pop
Kraftwerk
Arthur Russel

Same old shit

Which is the omnipresent:
Church
McDonald's
Samo


Le. Vey
Cochella
Mickey Mouse
Samo
Jean

Fame? Here I am close to tears over a collage which reads feta cheese and pez packaging rearranged to form epz. Why?

Wine of Babylon Alice in wonderland 1984

Samo anti art
Samo as an alternative to bullshit fake hippy whack cheeb
Samo as an end 2 nine 2 five nonesence wasting your life 2 make ends meet to go home at night to your colour tv
Samo as an end to micro-wave existence
Samo 4 u

Self portraits in a number of guises

Aaron

Famous - large scale collage maybe even basquiat didn't know what it means

Beat bop

Rammellzee

A basquiat halo?

Crown of dreadlocks

Video of him dancing in his studio

Movement is the purest form of expression

Anything that's all there is

Downtown 81 (2000) or New York beat
Ft Debby harry
Lounge lizards
Kid creole
The coconuts

I don't have a studio how can i dance in nothingness

If basquiat died at 27 that means I can easily outlive him I've got to achieve more than basquiat in my lifetime daunting yes doable it's going to have to be

Xerox art

Glenn obrien
He ate up every image, every word, every bit of data that appeared in front of him and he processed it all into a bebop cubist pop art cartoon gospel that synthesised the whole overload we lived under into something hat made an astonishing new sense.

Area and mudd club

Jazz books
Ross Russell, bird lives!? The high life and hard times of Charlie yardbird Parker 1973
Black beauty, white heat: a pictorial history of classsic jazz 1920 -1950 (1982)

Do not stand infront of the orchestra

Folding triptych that wouldn't close as all the same size (1981)

Nicholas Taylor jean michel basquiat dancing at the mudd club 1979

All-beef famous

Repetition to sacred

Mona lisa lipstick mouth one black eye Mary Boone

Delighting in the clash between supposedly high and low culture

Tuxedo 1983 forms the shape of a person

Jawbone of an ass 1982 title comes from the bible directly

What about yellow

Titled psalm or prayer
Hymn