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Pace Gallery presents an online exhibition of Saul Steinberg’s interior illustrations

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Pace Gallery presents an online exhibition of Saul Steinberg’s interior illustrations

Saul Steinberg himself. (Courtesy Pace Gallery)

With venues in six cities across the world, Pace Gallery seems to have easily found a seventh home online. For Imagined Interiors, one of the gallery’s inaugural Online Viewing Room exhibitions, independent curator Michaëla Mohrmann mounted a solo exhibition of drawings, photographs, and collages by Romanian-American artist Saul Steinberg that depict architectural interiors and the accumulation of domestic objects.

“My purpose is to transform an idea that I had into a drawing. I am not so preoccupied by the outside world,” Steinberg once admitted. “I’m preoccupied with my own inside world.”

Steinberg, who trained as an architect in 1930s Italy, often depicted the domestic interior as a place of productive boredom, where one keeps busy arranging and intermixing prized belongings with temporary junk. The artist often neglected to draw the bounding box of the room, allowing the objects to define the limits of the interior. The few renderings of cityscapes are animated by interior furnishings scaled up to impossible degrees. For instance, Chest of Drawers Cityscape (1950) fashions a clothing organizer into a skyscraper with little embellishment, in a gesture that either expands the interior or shrinks the outside world.

Read the full show preview on our interiors and design website, aninteriormag.com.


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