You open an enterprise “Beyeler” In the Swiss city of Basel, an exhibition featuring the paintings of the international painter “Jean-Michel Basquia”, appear together for the first time, as they are rare works that the public has seen only a few times, according to the “” CNN“.

said Sam Keeler, director of the Foundation Foundation BeyelerWith each new generation, the importance of Bascia’s work increases, pointing out that his collection of pictures and words reflects high-end and popular culture, history and science.

The exhibition “Bascia: Paintings of Modena,” which opens next month at the Belair Foundation, includes a painting “The Guilt of Gold Teeth” Which was sold for $ 40 million at an auction organized by Christie’s, in 2021.

In 1982, Emilio Mazzoli, an Italian gallery owner, invited Baschia to produce artworks for a single exhibition, and provided him with a workspace and painting supplies.

The graffiti artist painted his paintings on discarded old canvases previously used by another artist, Mario Schifano, and wrote “Modena” on the back of the paintings. world famous.

The large-scale artworks are held in eight separate private collections in the United States, Asia, and Switzerland.

The Modena paintings share several stylistic codes and traits, according to a statement from the Bayler Foundation, which include “a massive figure, often black, set against a background of broad and expressive brush strokes…the human body and animal occupy the central scene.”