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Antonio Seguí — Sortie
Antonio Seguí

Sortie

1982

In *Sortie*, Antonio Seguí layers oil, acrylic, charcoal, and varnish over newspaper mounted on canvas, creating a richly textured surface where fragmentary text and imagery bleed through the painted scene. The work reflects Seguí's signature visual language of anonymous, hat-wearing figures navigating urban environments, rendered with expressive, cartoonish energy. The incorporation of newspaper grounds the composition in a sense of everyday life and collective memory, while the title—French for "exit" or "way out"—hints at themes of movement, escape, and the restless flux of modern existence.

Medium
oil, acrylic, charcoal and varnish on newspaper laid on canvas

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Antonio Seguí, Sortie, 1982

In *Sortie*, Antonio Seguí layers oil, acrylic, charcoal, and varnish over newspaper mounted on canvas, creating a richly textured surface where fragmentary text and imagery bleed through the painted scene. The work reflects Seguí's signature visual language of anonymous, hat-wearing figures navigating urban environments, rendered with expressive, cartoonish energy. The incorporation of newspaper grounds the composition in a sense of everyday life and collective memory, while the title—French for "exit" or "way out"—hints at themes of movement, escape, and the restless flux of modern existence.

Medium
oil, acrylic, charcoal and varnish on newspaper laid on canvas
Year
1982
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th-Century Art, Argentine Artist, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Street Scene, Contemporary Artist, Dark Tones, Figurative Art, Newspaper Collage, Urban Mood, Neo-Expressionism

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