This 257-page monograph presents an important body of work by the artist Jean-Pierre Séguin, more specifically the series of portraits produced between 1976 and 2006. This artistic genre becomes in fact a pretext for a plastic research that uses print, painting, photography and digital work. The artist invites the viewer to a game of perception between figurative representation and abstraction. The book brings together several essays by authors who examine different aspects of the artist's practice and propose various interpretations of his work on portraits.
Portraits 1976-2006
Jean-Pierre Séguin
Jean-Pierre Séguin has been a professor in the Department of Arts and Letters at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi since 1979. For several years, his pictorial and photographic research has focused on the systems of representation and the means of realizing the portrait. His work has been shown in several exhibitions in Canada and abroad, including Beaded Portraits, OK Harris, New York (2007); Figures, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, St-Jérôme (2006-2007); 1040 tableaux, Langage Plus, Alma (2006); Métaphoretraits, CNE, Jonquière (2005); Corps et Figures, Montréal Télégraphe, Montréal (2001). His works can be found in numerous private and public collections.
