Peter Saul
1934 (San Francisco)
Living in : New York
Working in : New York
Artist's gallery
Still today, at more than 80 years of age, Peter Saul is making resistance on both sides of the Atlantic! An underground artist, he has never been a really fashionable painter because his work remains as biting and critical of the official art history and the leaders of his country. As Gérald Gassiot-Talabot, a critic close to the Figuration Narrative, said, he is a "manipulator of archetypes, a denouncer of mythology (in the Barthesian sense). With him, the history is not stopped. Even if one is not sure that it has a direction". For half a century, Saul has chosen to attack the powers that be and the so-called good taste through the forms of his models, which seem inflated like balloons and ready to explode, never ceasing to inflict them with ever delightful distortions.
Living in : New York
Working in : New York
Artist's gallery
Still today, at more than 80 years of age, Peter Saul is making resistance on both sides of the Atlantic! An underground artist, he has never been a really fashionable painter because his work remains as biting and critical of the official art history and the leaders of his country. As Gérald Gassiot-Talabot, a critic close to the Figuration Narrative, said, he is a "manipulator of archetypes, a denouncer of mythology (in the Barthesian sense). With him, the history is not stopped. Even if one is not sure that it has a direction". For half a century, Saul has chosen to attack the powers that be and the so-called good taste through the forms of his models, which seem inflated like balloons and ready to explode, never ceasing to inflict them with ever delightful distortions.
Artist's exhibitions
Peter Saul. Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More
20/09/2019 - 26/01/2020(Toulouse) Les Abattoirs – Frac Occitanie Toulouse
Peter Saul
14/07/2012 - 11/11/2012(Alex) Fondation pour l’art contemporain Salomon