Antonio SEGUI - On ne Matraque Pas L’Imagination, 1968 - Mixed Media

Antonio Segui : Born in 1934, in Córdoba Antonio Segui is an argentinian painter. He arrived in France in 1951 to study painting and sculpture. In 1952, he moved to spain to study. In 1957, he realized his first solo exhibition in Argentine. In 1958, he made a long trip to south and central America, before settling in Mexico, where he studied etching techniques. In 1961, he went back to work in Argentina, before settling definitively in Paris in 1963. He now lives in Arcueil in Émile Raspail's previous property. At the beginning of his career, influenced by artists like George Grosz or Otto Dix, he practiced an expressionist figuration with a touch of irony but step by step, his figuration advanced toward absurd.