Maternities,116x89cm, Gëtan de Séguin - 2024

Maternity wards

Gaëtan de Séguin

89cm x 116cm x 3cm

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3000,00€

Each canvas offers numerous characters, but they only work by their integration into the whole. Sometimes they are quickly individualized (stripes, stripes of different colors, circles, but almost never faces), but the work remains a work on the mass: "I cover my canvas with a dominant color very dense, almost shouting. Then this undercoat is completely covered, the tone becomes clear again and the tints melt into a cameo of colored grays. From there, I can start to paint by adding or subtracting material. The music that I listen to will then give rhythm to the appearance of the group. By scratching with the most diverse tools, I paint as much as with brushes. Each asperity, each scratch is a unique motif that characterizes the individual as much as it allows him to melt into a much more global and abstract dimension".

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Gaëtan de Séguin

Gaëtan de Séguin is a sensitive colorist who handles mixed media with virtuosity.

His canvases welcome crowds of individuals who function through their integration into the whole, in a pictorial language on the edge between abstraction and figuration. He assigns roles as if to anonymous characters, extras in a vast scene. Each silhouette is essential to the balance and harmony of the whole. The crowd is synonymous with diversity, where each individual displays the unique traits that make them singular.

The artist invites us to look from different angles. He asks us to zoom in and then zoom out, alternately discovering the detail of his materials and the overall composition of his works.

He covers the canvas with a very dense dominant colour, which is then submerged by light tones where hues blend into a camaïeu of coloured greys. Gaëtan paints in mixed media, seeking material effects and the reactions between inks, acrylic, oil or watercolour, adding or subtracting paint, with brushes and paintbrushes. His colour range, all subtlety, melts behind the motif; the tonal nuances come alive when he creates a mesh through the effect of scratching. Individual, hidden asperities then show through despite the successive layers.

Each asperity, each stripe is a unique motif that characterizes the individual as much as it allows him or her to merge into a much more global and abstract dimension.

Gaëtan de Séguin’s painting is all restraint and nuance, always centred on the search for the individual and their place within the collective.

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