J+tel père, tel fils... Painting

A painting of the plural singular “Gaëtan de Séguin paints crowds. His crowds are made up with a multitude of silhouettes, all of them almost identical but also singular. Beings who, by the action of the painting itself, become patterns. Recurrent, haunting, swarming, building a new life, a new being. Sometimes the silhouette, peculiar and mute, escapes from the crowd but never finds its salvation. On its own, passing by its keens without ever comprehending them. Multitude and unique, anonymity and privacy, silence and noise. There is a bit of all this gathering into Gaëtan’s painting, a painting of the plural singular.” My reasoning I have always been the one who draws and the one who draws “blokes”. As soon as I lay hand on anything I can draw on, I cover it up with silhouettes. In 40 years of time, I became responsible for a great bestiary! Each working session in my workshop gives birth to a humankind constituted of individuals who interact as much as they ignore each other. All of them are wild and wise at the same time, creative and vain. As far as I offer to anyone the possibility to invent my characters’ own stories, my painting is decisively of a figurative type.