Since 1962, Antonio Seguí has given the figure a predominant place in his painting, joining the emerging New Figuration movement. Originally from Argentina, he settled permanently in Paris in 1963, and his work was revealed at the Paris Biennale of the same year. From the 1960s to the 1970s, his paintings, which were very politically committed, denounced the oppressive power of the army and the clergy in Argentina.
Antonio Seguí (born in 1934)
La Escapada, 1982
Estimation : 25000 / 40000 €
Seguí became famous with his urban landscapes where the characters, mostly male and preferably headstrong, never cease to run amidst colourful dwellings and public gardens that cohabit without any relation of scale. This teeming agitation, expressed in a primitive voluntary style, arouses amusement and questioning. But behind the seemingly sympathetic, even naive atmosphere of these paintings lies the artist's critical and acerbic vision: "Segui's work," writes Daniel Abadie, "is in reality a trapped work. Presenting itself with the greatest simplicity, imbued with a lightness that seems to be corroborated by its obvious humour, it appears at first glance as an elegiac image, an ironic and distant commentary on the world when it is in fact a moral reflection, a lesson in learning to see.
