Preview of the Basquiat retrospective exhibition in Paris

(16 Oct 2010) SHOTLIST
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City Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 13th October 2010
1. Close up photo of Basquiat
2. Tilt down Basquiat in his studio 1985
3. Various of tour
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabrice Hergott, Chief Curator of City Museum of Modern Art, Paris:
"He was very young, and he was very full of energy, he was the incarnation of what could be a young American artist, with his French culture. He was very open to everything. And I think in France we have a very deep interest for Africa, for the history of France. And the way he was showing his painting, his subjects, was very touching for people here."
5. Various of painting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dieter Buchhart, Curator of the Basquiat exhibition:
"He was like manic, drawing permanently, everywhere where he was more or less, he was drawing. And in his paintings the drawing component is one of the most important. More or less all of the paintings are all the drawings at the same time."
7. Various of Zydeco (1984)
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dieter Buchhart, Curator of the Basquiat exhibition:
"He was never seen as a graffiti artist, even if he did graffiti. But those graffiti were very poetic, very conceptual. And that's already the basis that he would keep on with postcards; like in a collage style inspired by Rauschenberg, and keeps on painting, drawing on everything around him, surrounding him."
9. Close up of painting
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carri�re, Curator of the Basquiat exhibition:
"We keep on finding in his painting a sycopal effect of words. He often sticks words and images together. He repeats words in his painting as a rapper could, to chant, to repeat the Gospel, which was one of his influences."
11. Various of "Arm and Hammer II" collaboration between Basquiat and Andy Warhol.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dieter Buchhart, Curator of the Basquiat exhibition:
"He would rework it many times, he wouldn't be satisfied just with the first solution. People said, 'oh that was wonderful work you had in your studio, what's with that' - 'oh I over painted it.' So he would keep on and keep on the process of working. Also the composition was like that. It developed like in a process."
13. Various of people walking through the museum
14. SOUNDBITE (French) of Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carri�re, Curator of the Basquiat exhibition:
"In his painting we see black silhouettes that can be seen as self portraits, but we can also see these black silhouettes in a plastic way. It is something that is very strong and that allows him to create a sign in the painting. He uses black for the colour itself. The black has virtues that he uses, it corresponds to skin colour, but he uses it really in a literal sense."
15. Various of paintings with the use of black
16. SOUNDBITE (French) of Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carri�re, Curator of the Basquiat exhibition:
"He is of the same generation as Obama. Obama just celebrated his 49th birthday. Basquiat would be 50 today. So he also knew the entire issue, the difficulties with civil rights. It is at the beginning of the 60's. He was a part of the evolution of that society."
17. Various of paintings
18. Wide of Untitled Skull 1981, visitor walks into shot
LEAD IN:
A retrospective marking what would been Jean-Michel Basquiat's 50th birthday has opened to the public in Paris.
Comprised of more than 100 pieces from museums and private collections in the United States and Europe, it is the largest retrospective of Basquiat's work that has ever come to France.
STORYLINE:
"Basquiat" runs at the Modern Art Museum, Paris until January 30th 2011.

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