Julian Schnabel receives ICON in San Sebastián to talk about art, criticism, cinema, his relationship with Spain and his next project: the film 'In the Hand of Dante' “It's ridiculous to try to tell someone's life in two hours. I don't make biographical films, but portraits," he says.

Schnabel spearheaded what is known as the return of painting: canvases that dealt with universal themes – death, death, and on a spectacular scale. In 1979, his first exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York opened with all the works of Leo Castelli.