Exhibition on the theme of Golf featuring François Boisrond, Henri Cueco, Hervé Di Rosa, Gérard Fromanger, Jérôme Mesnager, Jacques Monory, Bernard Rancillac, Antonio Seguí, Hervé Télémaque, and Vladimir Veličković.
Golf, 25th Lancôme Trophy — Group Exhibition
Antonio Seguí, Jacques Monory
31/03/1994 - 30/04/1994
Artists
Antonio Seguí
Born in Córdoba (Argentina) in 1934, Antonio Seguí studied in France and Spain in the early 1950s then traveled through Europe and Latin America. In 1963 he represented Argentina at the Paris Biennale and settled permanently in the Parisian capital. In his works, on the fringes of Pop Art and New Figuration, the realism is essential, but it is a “fairy” realism, imbued with the warm colors, noise and crowds of the great cities of Latin America. On multiple media, from painting to photography and from lithography to monumental sculpture, he deals with humor, irony and the bubbling spectacle of urban life, building a kind of theater on the stage with a man in motion frolic looking for his place in the world. A whole gallery of different characters are deliberately simplified, as if to give them more freedom and a falsely naïve and utopian dimension.
Jacques Monory
Jacques Monory (1924–2018) is one of the major representatives of Narrative Figuration (Figuration narrative), a movement identified by critics as early as 1964, running parallel to American Pop Art. His highly complex body of work has sparked the interest and analysis of numerous intellectuals. Monory asserted a fundamentally dramatic vision of existence, fueled by current … Continued