This exhibition is the first complete retrospective dedicated to Saul Steinberg (Râmnicu Sărat, Romania, 1914 – New York, 1999) in Spain. Steinberg is considered one of the most outstanding post-war artists, and his work resists any simple classification. As he himself stated, “I don’t quite belong to the realm of art, of cartoons or drawings for magazines, and the art world doesn’t quite know where to place me.” The wandering between different artistic and literary genres is essential to his work, and also a mirror of his life, his times and his destiny in the turbulent 20th century.
Saul Steinberg is best known for his drawings published on the covers and inside pages of The New Yorker magazine , a close collaboration that lasted nearly six decades and meant that Steinberg entered North American homes and shook up the ways of thinking of American society. He defined himself as “a writer who draws”, but his artistic production goes much further: his ingenuity and virtuoso play of images are transferred to other less popular media, but key to his production, such as painting, graphics, collage , photomontage, and even “drawing” in three dimensions.
The exhibition presents all the facets of the artist and how they were interrelated throughout his life. It features nearly four hundred pieces from various private collections and European and American institutions. In addition, The Saul Steinberg Foundation of New York has donated part of its funds to the Juan March Foundation and they are part of this exhibition.
See below for more information, program, trailer, and catalog.
Full exhibition details at Juan March Foundation website
Saul Steinberg, artista, program pdf