Description

Urban Wall Basquiat is a powerful collaborative work signed by Jérôme Mesnage and Lasveguix , who pays homage to the legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat while asserting a style deeply rooted in contemporary urban aesthetics.

The composition evokes a city wall marked by time, torn posters, and successive layers of visual interventions. Fragments of posters in shades of yellow, pink, and black, partially ripped, interact with dark areas, tags, and bursts of color, creating a dense, vibrant, and chaotic surface, true to the raw energy of the street.

At the heart of the artwork appears the famous white body of Jérôme Mesnager, an emblematic figure of street art, captured in an upward and expressive movement. This luminous figure contrasts with the visual violence of the background and embodies a form of momentum, resistance, and freedom, like a human presence seeking to emerge from the urban tumult.

Lasveguix's intervention reinforces the graphic and textural dimension of the whole, through a process of collage, tearing, and layering that echoes Basquiat's radical aesthetic: an instinctive, political, and profoundly vibrant style of painting. The work thus plays on the collective memory of street art, somewhere between homage, reinterpretation, and contemporary reappropriation.

Urban Wall Basquiat presents itself as an urban palimpsest, where the history of graffiti, the mythology of modern art, and the raw reality of the street intersect. A committed, vibrant, and resolutely contemporary work, it celebrates the expressive power of urban art as a universal language.