New York | Besançon

Besançon, France, 2005 - present

The new installation of Jean-Pierre Sergent studio in Besançon, France will give him the opportunity to show his work into French and European art market. It will also give a chance to European public to discover a painting full of energy and spirituality.

With his paintings, Jean-pierre Sergent is showing us a representational space in-witch images are affirming them-self, and a projection space were signs, words and abstract forms are entangling each other, and bringing us back to the body presence.

His last work do not give any room for matter. Matter and objects have disappeared giving birth to flatness were shape, ground and colors are mixing, interwoven. It is creating a special visual effect of life pulsation energies going forward and backward like blood into the body. This warm feeling is surprising because the silkscreen technic he use have been used by Andy Warhol which created at his time distanced contemporary Icons, staging usually cold and faraway.

This "painting without thickness" is meeting here with courage and violence the drawings from Mexican Maya culture, one of those shamanic cultures the painter like so much. Images silkscreened on plexiglas allow a flow of overlaying feeling with unexpected shapes. The medium is becoming then: "An enclosed, chaotic, ethereal space where several energies mix together, attract each other, harmonize and destroy each other".

Living proof that painting still is a significant contemporary means of expression and always challenged. Jean-Pierre Sergent is giving us back an art full of life: "One must look at my paintings not as paintings, not as art objects, but as some sacred spaces of conflicts and creations."

Extracts from a press article by Laura Franco in "LE MAG" Ornans, France, July 2005

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