> ABOUT THE MAG MAG (Montreux Art Gallery) 2014, the 10th contemporary art fair invites you at Montreux on the Swiss Riviera. This art event is the most important in this French-speaking area, gathering more than 50 galleries and 150 international artists. The City of Montreux, a magical place that as built his reputation by combining its economical, cultural and gorgeous scenery landscaping, will be please to welcome you for this new fabulous contemporary international art exhibition.
> JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT developed his repertory of artistic forms in the United States and continues to work and exhibit regularly in France and the rest of Europe. He recently exhibited at two solo exhibitions in major museums: the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Mulhouse in 2011 and the Courbet Farm of Flagey in 2102. Last year, he had two solo shows, one of large works on paper: "Sex & Rituals" at the Omnibus Gallery of Besançon, France, and the other: "Cultures-Energies", at the Kunstpalais in Badenweiler, Germany. For this tenth anniversary of the MAG, Sergent is going to present 8 Plexiglas square paintings (1,40 m x 1,40 m), chosen from his new "Entropic Suites" series completed during the Summer 2014, as well as a few pieces of small works on paper (42 x 42 cm) from the series: "Le désir, la matrice, la grotte et le lotus blanc". Both series of works have been largely inspired to the artist by his last reading of the Upanishads, this Hindu book, one of he oldest in the history of writing, and specially from this quotation from the Tripura Upanishad:
"Desire, the womb, the Digit of Desire, The Wielder of the Thunderbolt, the Cave, Ha sa, the Wind, the Cloud, the King of Heaven, Yet again the Cave, sa ka la and maya – Such is the primeval Wisdom, embracing all, Mother of the vast universe
- IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION
Jean-Pierre Sergent Cutting in the films with the plotter machine and peeling off the opaque ruby part not to be exposed, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent Cutting in the films with the plotter machine and peeling off the opaque ruby part not to be exposed, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent Cutting in the films with the plotter machine and peeling off the opaque ruby part not to be exposed, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent Cutting in the films with the plotter machine and peeling off the opaque ruby part not to be exposed, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Exposing the frames with the films in the light-box table and removing the unexposed emulsion, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Hand silkscreening the images on Plexiglas panels with a squeegee, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Hand silkscreening the images on Plexiglas panels with a squeegee, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Hand silkscreening the images on Plexiglas panels with a squeegee, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Hand silkscreening the images on Plexiglas panels with a squeegee, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Painting 3 coats of monochrome acrylic color on the back of the Plexiglas panels with a brush, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Painting 3 coats of monochrome acrylic color on the back of the Plexiglas panels with a brush, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Painting 3 coats of monochrome acrylic color on the back of the Plexiglas panels with a brush, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Painting 3 coats of monochrome acrylic color on the back of the Plexiglas panels with a brush, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Painting 3 coats of gesso on the back of the Plexiglas panels with a roll, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, painting 2 coats of varnish on the back of the Plexiglas panels with a roll, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, painting 2 coats of varnish on the back of the Plexiglas panels with a roll, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, painting 2 coats of varnish on the back of the Plexiglas panels with a roll, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Adjusting, mounting, polishing and packing the new Plexiglas paintings, with a check pattern of black and colored Plexiglas rectangles, with Jean-François Delamain, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Adjusting, mounting, polishing and packing the new Plexiglas paintings, with a check pattern of black and colored Plexiglas rectangles, with Jean-François Delamain, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent, Adjusting, mounting, polishing and packing the new Plexiglas paintings, with a check pattern of black and colored Plexiglas rectangles, with Jean-François Delamain, Summer 2014Jean-Pierre Sergent installing the show with Christine Chatelet & Jean-François Delamain, MAG 2014, November 5, Montreux, SwitzerlandJean-Pierre Sergent installing the show with Christine Chatelet & Jean-François Delamain, MAG 2014, November 5, Montreux, SwitzerlandJean-Pierre Sergent installing the show with Christine Chatelet & Jean-François Delamain, MAG 2014, November 5, Montreux, SwitzerlandJean-Pierre Sergent installing the show with Christine Chatelet & Jean-François Delamain, MAG 2014, November 5, Montreux, SwitzerlandChristine Chatelet & Jean-Pierre Sergent, MAG 2014, November 5, Montreux, SwitzerlandChristine Chatelet & Jean-François Delamain, MAG 2014, November 5, Montreux, SwitzerlandJean-François Delamain & Jean-PierreSergent, MAG 2014, November 5, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of Jean-Pierre Sergent exhibition's @ MAG 2014, November 5-9, Montreux, SwitzerlandView of the Montreux landscape juste outside of the Art Fair BuildingView of the Montreux landscape juste outside of the Art Fair BuildingView of the Montreux landscape juste outside of the Art Fair BuildingJean-Pierre Sergent in front of the Lotus Plexiglas paintingJean-Pierre Sergent in front of the Orange painting, MAG 2104, photo by Marie-France MillassonMarie-France Millasson & Jean-Pierre Sergent in front of the White Lotus painting, photo de Marie-Paule SergentMarie-France Millasson in front of the White Lotus paintingWith my sister Marie-Paule amd my Mom.Jean-Pierre Sergent in front of the orange painting, photo by Marie-France MillassonStèphanie Scheel, Jean-Pierre Sergent & Marie-France Millasson in front of the Yellow paintiMarie-France Millasson in front of the White Lotus paintingStéphanie Scheel in front of the Yellow paintingStéphanie Scheel in front of the White Lotus paintingCarole Hertig & Anne-Katherine Vogel in front of the Blue Maya paintingCarole Hertig, Anne-Katherine Vogel & Jean-Pierre Sergent in front of the Blue Maya paintingCarole Hertig, Anne-Katherine Vogel & Jean-Pierre Sergent in front of the Orange Maya paintingCarole Hertig in front of the White Lotus paintingCarole Hertig in front of the in front of the Blue Maya paintingJohanna Fleith from the MAG team, in front of the Blue Maya paintingJohanna Fleith from the MAG team, in front of the Blue Maya paintingJohanna Fleith from the MAG team, in front of the Blue Maya paintingJohanna Fleith from the MAG team, in front of the Orange paintingOdile from O'ces Arts, in front of the Red paintingOdile from O'ces Arts, in front of the Red paintingJean-François Delamain in front of the Blue Maya paintingJean-Pierre Sergent, Michèle Vicat & Bill Dowell in front of the Orange paintingNathalie Zorzi & Jean-Pierre Sergent, photo by Jean-Franois DelamainNathalie Zorzi & Jean-François DelamainOn the booth, photo by Jean-François DelamainOn the booth, photo by Jean-François Delamain
- 1 > 20, Jean-Pierre Sergent in working process at his Besançon studio's for his new Paintings on Plexiglas series: The Entropic Suites, Summer 2014
- 21 > 27, Installing the show with Christine Chatelet & Jean-François Delamain, on November 4th
- 28 > 40, View of the exhibition
- 41 > 43, View of the Montreux landscape juste outside of the Convention Center Building
- 44 > 70, Photos taken with some friends during the Art Fair, November 5th to 9th
- 1 > 10, Suites Entropiques, mixed technics on Plexiglas, 1.40 x 1.40 m, 2014
- 1 - 18, Le désir, la matrice, la grotte et le lotus blanc, acrylic hand silkscreened on B.F.K. Rives paper, 25 x 25 cm, 2014 - 19, 20, Sky Umbilicus, acrylic hand silkscreened on B.F.K. Rives paper, 56 x 75 cm, 2006
