First Comprehensive Monograph on Antonio Seguí Published

Daniel Abadie has authored the first exhaustive monograph on Argentine artist Antonio Seguí, released in conjunction with retrospective exhibitions at Galerie Claude Bernard and Galerie Jeanne Bucher. The book chronologically explores Seguí's series, focusing on his obsession with the modern human figure. Seguí, a voluntary exile who moved to France at 29, began with expressionist portraits of anonymous and historical figures, influenced by muralism's social realism. In Paris, he rejected oil painting and subverted social stereotypes by repainting family photos to distort or over-dress subjects. In the 1960s, influenced by British Pop, he emptied his paintings by copying postcards with overlapping fronts and backs, then framed increasingly schematic Monsieur Gustavo figures with typography and saturated poster colors. From the 1980s, the suited man gave way to chaotic, dense masses of faceless men. His postmodern works serve as chronicles of worldly disenchantment.