Gaëtan De Séguin

I was born in 1971 in Montpellier in a family of five. After some years at school, a service militaire, an artistic education in ESAG Penninghen and
various jobs (all related to drawing), I made a more radical move towards painting. My wife is Danish and we have three children. I have always
dearly wanted two things: to live in a precisely located place and to live of my painting.I reached my two goals in 2010.
For 10 years I have designed and built a workshop / house. A neat
architecture, some bright light and a wide view over a landscape which is
an inherent aspect of my life. In this place I can paint surrounded by my
keens. I do not try to explain it. It is the way it is, a certainty, the context
that suits me. This settling is essential to my work. And I appeal to the
same certainty concerning my painting. On my instagram page you can see
different stages of my work. My work is support by 3 galleries in France and 2 agents (Germany and USA)

Art school in Paris for 5 years.

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.

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." (François Supi...

2020
- Gallery Sophie Le Mée in Ile de Ré. Participation to AFF Bruxelles (cancelled because of Covid pandemia)
- A/Proof Gallery in Washington.
- Gallery MMB in Avignon.
- Art Gallery in Hossegor.

2019
- Affordable Art Fair Bruxelles.
(with Gallery Sophie Le Mée)
- Art Fair London(with Gallery Folly & Muse)
- Art Fair Hamburg (with Gallery Folly & Muse)
- Art Fair Frankfurt (with Gallery Folly & Muse)
- Galerie A/Proof à Washington
- Gallery Sophie Le Mée in Ile de Ré.
- A/Proof Gallery in Washington.
- Gallery MMB in Avignon.
- Art Gallery in Hossegor.

2018
- Gallery MMB in Avignon.
- Gallery Sophie Le Mée in Ile de Ré.
- Art Gallery in Hossegor.
- Gallery Maznel in Saint Valéry sur Somme.
- Gallery Mougin in Paris.

2017
- Gallery MMB in Avignon.
- Gallery Mougin in Paris.
- Chapelle des Pénitents Bleus in Narbonne.
- Abbaye Saint André in Villeneuve les Avignons.

2016
- GX Gallery in London
- Gallery Visio dell'Arte Paris and New York
- Château de la Motte in Narbonne.

2015
- Gallery Visio dell'Arte Paris and New York
- Gallery Morastel in Mauguio.

2014
- Château de la Motte in Narbonne.


2013
- Gallery La Paix in Sélestat.


2012
- Château de Flaugergues in Montpellier.
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