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Canada
Mixed Media, other on Canvas
Size: 6.3 W x 6.3 H x 0.1 D in
Ships in a Crate
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For several years, I’ve been working on systems of representation in portraiture and on ways producing portraits. Relationships between photographic portraits and pictorial portraits are an integral part of my work. Thus, I’ve used several two-dimensional strategies to disturb viewers’ perceptions, strategies that prompt them to move about and try broaching the portrait from different distances. Through his or her motion, the spectator becomes a kind of zoom lens, varying focal length to produce effects of nearness and distance. Approaching the image to get a better look, viewers lose their grip on the identifiable reality of the photograph; reference points that normally serve to guide viewers of photography evade them here. The spectator must then fall back on a purely formal, even abstract reading. By eliminating superfluous and decorative elements of representation, I strive to display the procedures that go into making a portrait.I have several projects under way that lead me to use different procedure and compose with different materials in view of discovering other ways of obtaining both a figurative and an abstract perception of the portrait on the same surface. I am looking for something very concrete in the context of abstract work.
Original Created:2011
Subjects:Pop Culture/Celebrity
Materials:CanvasSoft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Styles:Realism
Mixed Media:other on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:6.3 W x 6.3 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Canada.
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Jean-Pierre Seguin has been a professor in the department of arts and letters at the Universite du Quebec à Chicoutimi since 1979. For a number of years, his pictorial and photographic research has been oriented toward representation systems and portrait making. His work has been in exhibitions in Canada and abroad, the most recent of which are 39-45, Galerie Graff, Montreal (2015); WW2, OK Harris, New York (2014);Artists Portraits, Galerie Graff, Montreal (2012);Beards in Beads, OK Harris, New York (2009); Beaded Portraits, OK Harris, New York (2007); Figures, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, St-Jérôme (2006-07); 1040 tableaux, Langage Plus, Alma (2006); Métaphoretraits, CNE, Jonquière (2005); and Corps et Figures, Montréal Télégraphe, Montréal (2001). His works are included in numerous private and public collections.
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