Yutaka Sakano was 32 years old when he saw the landing in 1983 in his studio in Tokyo, a young artist who chamboulait the scene of new york city. “Up to this command of the office Issey Miyake for the fashion magazine male Dansen , I had never heard of jean-michel Basquiat. I did not know neither his face, nor his work. I just knew that it was a phenomenon in America,” tells the photographer, tokyo, long grey hair, black hat and glasses frame black. While happy to see his work of yesterday will redeploy as a new, thirty-five years later, on the walls, the parisian gallery Patrick Gutknecht, 78 rue de Turenne (Iii). At the same time, thirty years after his death, on the eve of his 27 years of age, Basquiat is the star of the Foundation, Vuitton: up to 12,000 visitors a day, the weekend.

Memories of two hours of shooting, which would then become a piece of the legend. The other historical series, Warhol and Basquiat as boxers Michael …

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