Marc Séguin
photo : permission de l'artiste | courtesy of the artist & Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal Sabotage 13 : Marie-Claude Quenneville, permission | courtesy Galerie Lacerte art contemporain, Montréal
The Sabotage series seeks both to destroy and construct the artist’s image. To that effect, Marc Séguin has painted “self-portraits” resulting from 24 one-hour poses from various points of view on a 360-degree trajectory. In the paintings, his identity has been “sabotaged” by the fears, neuroses and joys that compose it as much as the shape of his face or the colour of his eyes. Born in Ottawa, Séguin holds a BFA from Concordia University. In 1996 his first solo exhibition at Plein-Sud drew critical attention. In 1998 he received the Pierre-Ayot Prize awarded by the City of Montreal. In 2000 the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal mounted his solo exhibition entitled Les rosaces and in 2004 the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presented Demons. In the spring of 2006 he mounted in collaboration with Galerie Simon Blais in Montreal a first solo show at the Envoy Gallery in New York City. Marc Séguin lives ant works in Montreal and in New York City.
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