‘Basquiat x Warhol’ collaboration on view in Paris

STORY: A new exhibition in Paris showcases one of the most

prolific collaborations of New York’s 1980s art scene

The Louis Vuitton Foundation’s

‘Basquiat x Warhol. Painting four hands’

is the largest show ever dedicated to the collaboration

between artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol

(Dieter Buchhart, Exhibition curator)

"There's two world views, there's two artists with totally different social backgrounds.”

It features over 300 works and documents that reconstruct

the art scene of downtown New York in the 1980s

and highlights the reciprocal influence

the artists had on one another

"It is not easy to distinguish between the writing and the hands of Basquiat and the hands of Warhol. The reason is that when they started to rework, or work, and set one over the other, it became difficult because Warhol ritual was always hand painting in the collaborations and he also loved the idea of that the two of them would merge more. But, on the other hand, their themes, their ideas were all different that they would never become the same. But, still, in some of the works, it is hard to distinguish the hands."