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Marc Séguin

June 14, 2006
Science Center - Old Port of Montreal
Flavours of the World Gala

July 29-30, 2006
Marché Bonsecours - Old Montréal
11:00 - 6:00

Marc Seguin was born in Ottawa on March 20, 1970. He lives and works in Montreal, where he obtained his Bachelors of Fine Arts at Concordia University. His first solo exhibition in 1996 presented large size works with amazing plastic proportions. This exhibition attracted favourable attention from critics and collectors; his career was launched! A talented printmaker as well as a prolific painter, Marc Seguin's work became recognized by the curators of the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum in 1997 since his celebrated group exhibit "De fougue et de passion". They then invited him to present a personal exhibition in 2000 (only 29 years old), which consisted of a series of large paintings following the theme of medieval rose windows. This exhibition was soon after circulated in France at the Canadian Cultural Center of Paris during the summer of 2001 and across Canada in 2003-2004. Also in 2004, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts invited him to show his drawing series called “LES DEMONS” which was critically acclaimed and Concordia University awarded him the ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.

His printmaking techniques, perfectly mastered, are executed with overflowing creativity. The artist does not hesitate to alloy general cloisonné techniques; serigraphy passages are added to dry point engravings or etchings; relief or decoupage often complete engravings with a mezzotint or aquatinting. The markings are knowing yet support great sensitivity, of an intuitive character, always near a certain representation of nature, which is priceless to the artist.

Since 2000, the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Quebec have all acquired important Marc Seguin paintings. His prints and his paintings can be found in numerous Canadian corporate collections and the collections of important private Canadian and American collectors. To this date, Marc Seguin has had more than 20 personal exhibits and has participated in many more group exhibitionsand art fairs in Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Berlin, Cologne, Brussels, New York and Chicago.

Coming spring of 2005 is Marc Seguin’s retrospective catalogue surveying 9 years of work, which will also include essays and interviews.

Source : Galerie Simon Blais

http://www.marcseguin.com/

 

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