Saul Steinberg: Drawings, Constructions & Objects

Opening July 20th and running through August 26th, The Drawing Room is pleased to present "Saul Steinberg: Drawings, Constructions & Objects," in collaboration with The Saul Steinberg Foundation, New York. The exhibition catalogue features an informative interview, Influence and Connection: Saul Steinberg, considered and remembered by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. Françoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993, describes working with Steinberg. Art Spiegelman shares his thoughts on Steinberg’s enduring influence on cartoonists and artists.

The exhibition comprises works in wood and on paper from the artist’s own collection. Cityscapes and still lifes from the 1950s and 60s, composite watercolor skyscapes, cubistic drawings with collage, and wood constructions from the iconic 1970s and 80s Table Top series highlight Steinberg’s originality and refracted humor, as well as his particular world view. This selection of works from his expansive oeuvre sheds light on the inventive clash of techniques and modes of representation in his work.

Growing up in Bucharest, Saul Steinberg became fascinated with the production and printing of images through his father’s business as a printer, bookbinder and cardboard box manufacturer. The very materials and processes of reproduction excited the young artist. His early success was in Milan where his anti-fascist cartoons in magazines expressed his philosophical vision for his art. In 1936 he wrote, “In Fascist Italy, where the controlled press was predictable and extremely boring, the humor magazines were a way of knowing other aspects of life, which, by the nature of humor itself, seemed subversive.”

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