Jean-Michel Basquiat: Batman Plate Jane DeBevoise Diana Kamin

Diana Kamin

a monumental unrealized installation of a cityscape

and illustrations from books and periodicals established in 1915

a driving bass line

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Batman Plate Jane DeBevoise Diana KaminProduced by Ligne Blanche in Paris in collaboration with the Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat, this Limoges porcelain plate features a detail from Basquiats 1983 work on paper Batman, for which he drew upon the rich history of comic books. Two bat shaped figures hover in the compositions upper right corner, perhaps referencing the titular superheros summoning signal. But the artist proceeds to complicate simplified representations of good and evil;