Antonio Segui

Antonio Seguí (born 1934) is both a painter and printmaker whose vivid, often satirical figurative works focus on the people and vistas of modern urban life. He uses his own recourse based on comic strip characters, texts, arrows and various signs, juxtaposed onto the figures that resemble comic strip style language. 

His early work displays the influence of the Cubists and of artists such as Fernand Léger and Diego Rivera (Mexican. In 1957 Seguí had his first solo exhibition in Cordoba at the age of 23. He moved to Mexico the following year where he studied printmaking. 

He has exhibited at galleries and institutions throughout the world, and his work is represented in the permanent collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, among many others. 

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