SAMO © [Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Al Diaz (*1959)], various slogan graffiti, New York, photos: Franco Marinai. In: Mah!, Serrazzano, 2023.
Shortly after his arrival in New York in 1979, the Italian-born experimental filmmaker and graphic artist Franco Marinai photographed, among other things, SAMO©- Graffiti that appeared in his 2024 Mah! Magazine in print for the first time. The graffiti signed TM [trademark] forms a new-found subgroup of the SAMO© slogans, in which Diaz and Basquiat saw themselves as an art guerrilla group.
Link:
MAH!© — AHEAD OF THE TEMPEST
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David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) Burning House, plastic stencil, 1981, PPOW Gallery, estate edition 2019, 29.7 x 20.9 cm.
This stencil was omnipresent in Manhattan in 1981. The ambivalent motif became a kind of Wojnarowicz logo and paved his way into the art world.
Lender: Ulrich Blanché
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Alex Vallauri (1949-1987), David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), Quik/Lin Felton (*1958) etc.,
Photos from Vallauri's estate make it clear that Vallauri's stencils were added to this wall at different times. Wojnarowicz soldier was there first. Both artists died of AIDS.
Lender: Ulrich Blanché
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