#Suzanne Mallouk

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Heads, You Win, Dir. Michael Holman [1987]

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Jennifer Clement, Widow Basquiat

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A 23 year old Vincent Gallo and Canadian psychiatrist Suzanne Mallouk starring in "Gaslight LeStat", a short vampire film by Michael Holman.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat ‘Untitled’ I to V 1982

From 1977 - 1980 Jean-Michel Basquiat first made his mark as a duo under the moniker SAMO - an abbreviated name for ‘same old shit’. And although he began tagging the streets of New York, it quickly became clear that Basquiat did not simply make graffiti - he made statements.

Art historian and writer Dr. Robert Farris Thompson was amongst the first to recognise his revolutionary perspective. In his art, Basquiat expressed intellectual obsessions with ancestry, modernity, origins, and mainstream society - revealing his future impact as a creator of culture.

During one of his most prolific years of production in 1982, Basquiat created the five works that inspired what is known as the figure Portfolio. The picture of two figures portrays Basquiat himself along with girlfriend Suzanne Mallouk. Surrounding each figure is a signature code of words and elements that uniquely illustrate the world through his eyes and experiences. In each work there is an active force from the hand of a spirited visionary - a name that survives comparison.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child    [trailer]

Very good doc about Jean-Michel Basquiat. It chronicles his early years as a graffiti artist, his meteoric rise as a painter, his friendship and artistic collaboration Andy Warhol, and his difficulties to deal with his success and stardom.

It helped me a lot to get to know him better. Basquiat's knowledge seems to have been immense given his age.

I only wished the camera would stay longer on some of the many paintings that were shown. Because there's often so much going on in them, the edits were too quick.

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A Panel of Experts

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982

Born to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat left home at the age of sixteen and began to make art on the streets of New York City. His subsequent rise to critical success was meteoric, as was his life: he died at the age of twenty-seven. Made in a pivotal year in Basquiat's career, when he was beginning to achieve international recognition, this painting embodies many of the artist's characteristic subjects and techniques, notably his bold handling of colour and line and his use of language and signs to infuse complex layers of meaning into his work. This canvas is believed to allude to a specific event in the artist's personal life: a fight between his girlfriend Suzanne Mallouk (nicknamed Venus), and his lover, the singer Madonna, both of whose names appear in the upper left-hand corner of the painting, above the depiction of a fistfight between stick figures.

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New Wave Downtown Fashion by Edo Bertoglio

Debbie Harry (1979) 

Chica Sato  (1979)

Ann Carlyle (1979)

Patti Astor (1979)

Karin (1979)

Anita (1979)

Anya Philips (1980)

Terence Sellers (1981)

Anna Sui (1981)

Suzanne Mallouk (1982)

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Basquiat & Mallouk, Monoprinting, 2018

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Suzanne Mallouk et Jean-Michel Basquiat

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“His paintings were inspired by the jazz musicians and he felt akin to them. A lot of the early jazz artists, of course, couldn’t even walk through the front door of the hotels and clubs they were playing in and had to enter through back doors and kitchens, and I think Jean felt this was a metaphor for his place in the white art world: he had entered through the back door. He broke into the white art world in a way that had never been done before by a black.” 

- Suzanne Mallouk ( Widow Basquiat: A memoir by Jennifer Clement)

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He always appreciated expensive things, as if consuming them would make him valuable.

Suzanne Mallouk (on Jean-Michel Basquit)

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Widow Basquiat, Jennifer Clement

Page 97 is the halfway point. I think I won’t survive past page 97, but if I do, it’s because of the single hair nestled along the left edge of the page. It runs like a stream through the paragraphs, snakes from its dark source near the “97” and gradually turns a red hue as it empties into the spine near the start of the page. The very tip of it is almost bleached blonde.

I could not tell you the growth rate of hair, or whether it’s true that hair grows at a different rate for women if they are ovulating, but I can look at each curve of the hair and guess what was happening at that particular segment.

              There is where she traveled to Italy.

       There she felt ill and had to be in hospital for a week.

              There is where she met her Danish love.

       There is where they became engaged before his visa expired.

If I could predict the future, I’m confident it would be a waste, a party trick and cheap means to make money. Limitation is the stuff that dreams are made of.

I went into the bathroom and lay down on the bathroom tiles. This was all just too much for me.

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You of all my children were made like an angel. But you want to look over the edge of hell. Always know where that line is and never cross it.

Jennifer Clement, Widow Basquiat 

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Today we remember the passing of Jean-Michel Basquiat(27 Club) who Died: August 12, 1988 in Great Jones Street, New York

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an 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.

Basquiat's art focused on 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.

Following an exhibition at Vrej Baghoomian's gallery in April 1988, Basquiat traveled to Maui in June. When he returned, Keith Haring reported meeting with Basquiat who was glad to tell him that he had finally kicked his drug dependency. Despite attempts at sobriety, Basquiat died on August 12, 1988, of a heroin overdose at his art studio on Great Jones Street in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood. He was 27 years old.

Basquiat was interred in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, where Jeffrey Deitch made a graveside speech. Among those speaking at Basquiat's memorial held at Saint Peter's Church on November 3, 1988, was Ingrid Sischy who, as the editor of Artforum in the 1980s, got to know the artist well and commissioned a number of articles that introduced his work to the wider world. Suzanne Mallouk recited sections of A. R. Penck's "Poem for Basquiat" and Fab 5 Freddy read a poem by Langston Hughes.

The 300 guests included musicians John Lurie and Arto Lindsay; artist Keith Haring; poet David Shapiro; Glenn O'Brien, a writer; Fab 5 Freddy; and members of the band Gray, which Basquiat led in the late 1970s. In memory of the late artist, Keith Haring created Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat (1988). In his memorial words for Basquiat, Haring stated: "He truly created a lifetime of works in ten years. Greedily, we wonder what else he might have created, what masterpieces we have been cheated out of by his death, but the fact is that he has created enough work to intrigue generations to come. Only now will people begin to understand the magnitude of his contribution".