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Antonio Seguí
(Córdoba, 1934)


In 1951 he travelled to Europe and attended classes as an independent student at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and in Paris. He went back to Córdoba and presented his first solo exhibition in Paideia. He travelled around Ibero-America and while in Mexico, in 1960, he was attracted to pre-Columbian and colonial art, and met Siqueiros. That same year he moved to Buenos Aires. After developing an abstract language close to informal art between 1961 and 1962, he joined the new figurative movement. He settled in Paris, where he presented solo exhibitions at Jeanne Boucher and Claude Bernard, and his work adopted symbolic characteristics without losing its criticism with the presence of men dressed in the 1920s’ style scattered all over his canvases. Since 1986 the main characteristic of his paintings was the multiplicity of elements represented on the same canvas, with views of cities and caricatures of people out of proportion, accompanied by everyday objects of contemporary urban societies. He exhibited his work in the United States, Spain, France, Finland, Greece, Iraq, Japan, Switzerland and almost everywhere in Ibero-America. In 1984 he participated in the Venice Biennale. He received awards at the V Tokyo Biennale, 1966, Le Salon de Montrouge in 1977, VIII Cracow Print Biennial in 1980, VII Biennial of San Juan de Puerto Rico in 1986, Di Tella Award in 1989 and First Prize Fondo Nacional de las Artes in 1990, amongst others. Between 1985 and 1991 he was professor at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He lives and works in Paris.

 



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Carborondum print

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Heads 2008
Carborondum print

 

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