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GROUP EXHIBITION: "UN LIEU, DES LIENS"*

THE GRAND-CACHOT FARM FONDATION | SWITZERLAND
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* "ONE PLACE, SOME LINKS"

Opening reception with music & brunch (CHF. 15.-), Sunday May 22 > 11 am-6 pm
Meeting dates with the artist > Sundays 5 (free jazz concert @ 11 am with the Samuel Blazer Trio), 19 June, 24 July & Saturday July 2 > 2-4 pm

> CONTACT GRAND-CACHOT FARM FONDATION
Le Grand-Cachot | 2405 La Chaux-du-Milieu | Switzerland
www.grand-cachot.chgrandcachot@gmail.com | Tel. +41 (0)32 936 14 24 | Fax +41 (0)32 936 13 06
Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 2-6 pm & Sunday 10 am-6 pm | Entrance fee: CHF. 5.-
Gallery Director: Mr. Jean-Bernard Vuille
Curator of the exhibition : Odile Vuillemin | odile.vuillemin@wanadoo.fr | Tel. +33 (0)670218173

> ABOUT THE FOUNDATION-FARM
Built in 1531, the Grand-Cachot Farm is one of the oldest in the High-Jura Swiss Mountains area, during its long history, its inhabitants have been farmers, lumberjacks, watchmakers, lacemakers… Since 1968, this beautiful traditional architecturally renovated space has been holding artist exhibitions in its gallery.

JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT . FONDATION FERME DU GRAND-CACHOT | SUISSE

The Grand-Cachot Farm, Winter 2016.

 
> DRIVING DIRECTIONS

JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT DIRECTION FONDATION GRAND CACHOT SUISSE

> ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: "UN LIEU, DES LIENS" / “ONE PLACE, SOME LINKS”
A group show curated by the artist Odile Vuillemin in collaboration with Jean-Bernard Vuille (director of the space) who invited ten artists living in the Franche-Comté area (France) to present their artworks: Jean-Bernard Butin, Régina Lemoigne, Claire Muël, Daniel Nicod, Mylène Peyreton, Martine Planchat, Jean-Pierre Sergent, Anne Valverde, Kees de Voogd, Odile Vuillemin.

Jean-Pierre Sergent, Invitation : Un lieu, des liens, Grand Cachot, Suisse 2016

View of the invitation card


> 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. In 2013, 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. In 2015 he had three gallery solo exhibitions in Switzerland and participated at the 7th Besançon Biennale in October.

> ABOUT SERGENT’S EXHIBITED ARTWORKS: “CIRCLES & YANTRAS”
Sergent is going to present five paintings on plexiglas selected from his Entropic Suites and Mayan Diary series (2007-2015) containing images of circles and yantras (Hindu meditations drawing).
The Gand-Cachot Farm seems the perfect place for the artist to present at the public, in this half millennium-old place, a glimpse of the continuity of human being and natural and cultural events throughout time perpetuation. The artist, born in Morteau (10 miles away from this place), visited the Grand-Cachot with his grandfather Maurice, when he was a teenager, and the space as well as the artworks seemed to have some kind of an aura, a delicious presence, in this prestigious place dedicated to art. Thanks also to his granddad who really enjoyed and respected artists and their works. It’s then important today and it’s a great honor to exhibit his works in such a well-attended art institution.
Nothing could represent and symbolyze more time continuity and human growing awareness development than concentric circles. In fact, they represent the expansion from the Bindu point (the unity, the starting point of cosmic creation, some kind of a Big Bang momentum), the mixing of male and female energies, the human spiritual development growing point and they tend to bring us toward personal achievement both physically and spiritually…*
Entangled into the paintings with fugacious “images of life” as sexual intercourses representations, flowers or birds, concentric circles are the infinity in the fragility, the geometrical and symbolic  structures burned into life bold coloured organical chaos, the real daily time transcendance!

* The metaphor of Life fluidity is like a stone fallen into a quiet lake. This impact is followed by a circular wave giving birth to a larger one, the circles continuously multiply all over the water surface. The growing awareness develop likewise, except that the mind’s lake is infinite. In Mu, le maître et les magiciennes, A. Jodorowsky

PRESS: PDF DOWNLOADS


> BIOCommuniqué de presse (JPS-FR) > Press release (JPS-E) > Invitation > Folder season 2016

> THE VIDEOS


> TV REPORT ON FRANCE 3 FRANCHE-COMTÉ, BROADCASTED ON 5/27/2016, (in French)

JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT, REPORTAGE FRANCE 3 FRANCHE-CONTÉ À L’EXPOSITION COLLECTIVE “UN LIEU DES LIENS”, FERME DU GRAND-CACHOT, SUISSE, MAI 2016


> TV REPORT BY JEAN-PIERRE LAMBERT FOR TOR TV, NEUCHÂTEL, BROADCASTED ON JULY 2016 (in French)

JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT, > REPORTAGE DE JEAN-PIERRE LAMBERT POUR TOR TÉLÉVISION, NEUCHÂTEL DIFFUSÉ EN JUILLET 2016

> INSTALLING THE EXHIBITION                                                             > THE EXHIBITION & THE OPENING

JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT, AU TRAVAIL II PARTIE XXIV : INSTALLATION DE EXPOSITION AU GRAND-CACHOT, 2016                              JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT, EXPOSITION : UN LIEU, DES LIENS, FERME DU GRAND-CACHOT, SUISSE, 2016

 

> PRESS ARTICLES

Jean-Pierre Sergent, exposition Un lieu, des liens,article Impartial,19.5.2016     Jean-Pierre Sergent, exposition Un lieu, des liens, article Ph+Arts, juin-juillet 2016    Jean-Pierre Sergent, exposition Un lieu, des liens, article C’est à dire, juin 2016     Article de Dominique Traversini pour la revue Accrochage, Suisse, juin 2015   

> EXHIBITED ARTWORKS (Press download)

- 1, Entropic Suites #138, mixed technics on Plexiglas, 1.40 x 1.40 m, 2011
- 2Entropic Suites #003, mixed technics on Plexiglas, 1.40 x 1.40 m, 2015
- 3, Mayan Diary #002, mixed technics on Plexiglas, 1.40 x 1.40 m, 2010
- 4, Entropic Suites #146, mixed technics on Plexiglas, 1.40 x 1.40 m, 2015
- 5, Mayan Diary #109, mixed technics on Plexiglas, 1.40 x 1.40 m, 2010
- 6-8, Bones & Flowers: The Metamorphosis Of Life, acrylic hand silkscreened on B.F.K. Rives paper, 90 x 70 cm, 2015

> VIEWS OF THE PLACE & THE EXHIBITION


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