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Saul Steinberg: Lines that Transform the Real World
Kyoto ddd Gallery
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Saul Steinberg
It has been 24 years since the passing of Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), one of America's most beloved artists.
Steinberg's name is familiar in Japan, but he is an artist in need of rediscovery and reevaluation.
Steinberg's drawings are a "method of reasoning on paper," and he depicts the gap between the mythologized American ideal and reality, the eerie and comical absurdity of the mixture of the old and the new, the elegant and the rabid, and its invisible crevasses, with humor and satire, in wry, witty, and sharp lines. He drew with humor and satire, with light and sharp lines.
He visualized "invisible lines," "invisible things," "invisible words," and "invisible structures," and continued to challenge the transformation of meaning and concepts throughout his life. He seemed to actively embrace the ambiguity of his title and was variously described by the public as "a writer who paints," "an architect of words and sounds," "an artist on the borderline," "a draftsman of new ideas," etc., always crossing unknown visual territories, from children's drawings and adult scribbles to Classical, Baroque, Mannerism, Expressionism, Cubism, and Constructivism, he experimented with all styles and all modes of expression.
Steinberg incites the viewer to become a party to the unreasonableness of reality, saying, "I am calling the reader to complicity." Armed with such contemplation and thought, the forms Steinberg created transformed the pages of numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Italian satirical newspaper Bertoldo and the leading American magazine The New Yorker, into places of art, as clear as Picasso's paintings on the walls of museums.
This exhibition, traveling from his first major solo exhibition in Japan held at the Ginza Graphic Gallery (GGG), features a total of approximately 170 works, including posters, lithographs, etchings, and other valuable works donated by the Saul Steinberg Foundation, as well as reproductions of his most famous works, mainly drawings. The exhibition will also include reproductions of representative works, mainly drawings.
According to Kichoro Yahagi, who supervised this exhibition, "Most people who are shown Steinberg's drawings are immediately bewildered, stop thinking, and are suspended in mid-air, even if they initially react with a smile, thinking that the scene is impossible."
Steinberg's name is familiar in Japan, but he is an artist in need of rediscovery and reevaluation.
Steinberg's drawings are a "method of reasoning on paper," and he depicts the gap between the mythologized American ideal and reality, the eerie and comical absurdity of the mixture of the old and the new, the elegant and the rabid, and its invisible crevasses, with humor and satire, in wry, witty, and sharp lines. He drew with humor and satire, with light and sharp lines.
He visualized "invisible lines," "invisible things," "invisible words," and "invisible structures," and continued to challenge the transformation of meaning and concepts throughout his life. He seemed to actively embrace the ambiguity of his title and was variously described by the public as "a writer who paints," "an architect of words and sounds," "an artist on the borderline," "a draftsman of new ideas," etc., always crossing unknown visual territories, from children's drawings and adult scribbles to Classical, Baroque, Mannerism, Expressionism, Cubism, and Constructivism, he experimented with all styles and all modes of expression.
Steinberg incites the viewer to become a party to the unreasonableness of reality, saying, "I am calling the reader to complicity." Armed with such contemplation and thought, the forms Steinberg created transformed the pages of numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Italian satirical newspaper Bertoldo and the leading American magazine The New Yorker, into places of art, as clear as Picasso's paintings on the walls of museums.
This exhibition, traveling from his first major solo exhibition in Japan held at the Ginza Graphic Gallery (GGG), features a total of approximately 170 works, including posters, lithographs, etchings, and other valuable works donated by the Saul Steinberg Foundation, as well as reproductions of his most famous works, mainly drawings. The exhibition will also include reproductions of representative works, mainly drawings.
According to Kichoro Yahagi, who supervised this exhibition, "Most people who are shown Steinberg's drawings are immediately bewildered, stop thinking, and are suspended in mid-air, even if they initially react with a smile, thinking that the scene is impossible."
Schedule | Aug 9 (Wed) 2023-Oct 15 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | https://www.dnpfcp.jp/CGI/gallery/schedule/detail.cgi?l=1&t=2&seq=00000821 | ||||||
| Venue | Kyoto ddd Gallery https://www.dnpfcp.jp/gallery/ddd_e/ | ||||||
| Location | 3F Cocon Karasuma, 620 Suiginya-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 600-8411 | ||||||
| Access | Direct walk from exit 2 at Shijo Station on the Karasuma subway line, Direct walk from exit 23 at Karasuma Station on the Hankyu line. | ||||||
| Phone | 075-871-1480 | ||||||
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