Triennale Milano Presents Saul Steinberg: Milan, New York, a Tribute to the Great Artist from Milan

Triennale Milano presents Saul Steinberg: Milan, New York, a new exhibition curated by Italo Lupi and Marco Belpoti alongside Francesca Pellicciari, which explores Steinberg’s formative years in Milan. Produced in collaboration with Italy’s Electa Publishing House, the exhibition offers a tribute to the great artist who dedicated so many of his works to the Italian city. Saul Steinberg: Milan, New York provides the most comprehensive look at the spectrum of influences that formed his varied and surprising universe; a glimpse into a world that accepts, interprets, and reworks motifs and subjects of every kind, in a style that is immediately recognizable.

Steinberg retained a great fondness for years he spent in Milan (from 1933 to 1941), a city in which he made important friendships with several leading figures of the city’s intelligentsia. Seeking refuge from the anti-semitic government in Italy, Steinberg reached the United States in 1942, where he joined the allied armed forces and was stationed in China, North Africa and ultimately back in Italy, providing him an eye-witness account of the events of WWII.