- PART 1/4: Growing up with her grandfather Danton in Provence and the Camargue (wild girl, tomboy). 

This new series of filmed interviews: Artists' Worlds, and not Artists' Portraits, as one might have imagined, is devoted to filming discussions with artist friends I've met over the course of my life and artistic career. Because artists are, in fact, Universes in their own right, with their imaginations in creative mode 24 hours a day. Their work is fused with their lives, and they give their all, expecting neither reward nor comfort from their work. They're relentless and wholehearted, and contrary to what happens to them here in France, it seems that in Japan, they're considered Living Treasures! Isn't the grass always greener on the other side of the fence? Unfortunately, this series was started a little late, because when I was in New York in the 1990s and 2000s, I really would have liked to have recorded our long, interminable discussions with my painter friends, in particular Stefan Becker, a German from Munich, and Pierre Louaver, a Frenchman who lived in New York for over thirty years and who both passed away a few years ago...

Series of 42 photos (out of 203) showing the artist silk-screening the images of the new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes". Acrylic hand silk-screened and Indian ink printed on yellow Wang Sketching 80g & Rives B.F.K. white 250g papers, size 80 x 60 cm, unique prints.

These new Notes of 2023, like the previous ones, are still written under the aegis of the very beautiful sentence of Lucretius in his beautiful book On Nature: "Like a man, in the middle of a dream, devoured by thirst, and who seeks to drink, and who does not find the water which could extinguish the fire of his bones... ". Because there is, in me, a total and unquenchable thirst for Culture, Art, Sense and Beauty... and this, since childhood. In fact, I still remember, as a child, sitting with the whole family in the beautiful and large house of my great grandfather Werner, saying to me while making big eyes, while I was already asking his 'maid' Fortunata, very kind and loving, for a second cream cone, while I had not even finished the one I was eating: "Jean-Pierre, you have bigger eyes than big belly!" Today, I still haven't forgotten that phrase because it defines me perfectly and more than any other. But perhaps artists and shamans are exempt, thanks to their ogresque and demiurge natures, from this regulating folk wisdom formula. For they are the ones who are at the maneuvers and put their hands in the cogs, the mechanics and the sludge of all that makes and creates Life and in all that is obviously and fundamentally out of the norms: Nature, Life, Death, the Cosmos and Sex, which are infinite energies on our human temporal scale...

The Notes are small excerpts of thoughts, quotations from authors I have read, testimonies of lived experiences or dreams and initiatory trances that occurred during my artistic and spiritual journey.
NB: The titles of the exhibitions are written in capital letters and the texts found or written in English are presented here in English and sometimes translated below in French.

 - BOOK : Here are 2 quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck in his book : The Treasure of the Humble, which I like very much and make me think about the way the public apprehends, or no longer apprehends Art and my work in particular and it's probably simply for lack of soul! (to read the text written on this subject: ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE SOUL TODAY | AFTER "THE TREASURE OF THE HUMBLES" BOOK OF MAURICE MAETERLINCK)
"What we know about Ancient Egypt allows us to assume that it went through one of these spiritual periods. At a very remote period in the history of India, the soul must have approached the surface of life to a point which it never reached again; and the remains or memories of its almost immediate presence still produce strange phenomena there today. There are many other moments of the same kind when the spiritual element seems to struggle at the bottom of humanity like a drowning man struggling under the waters of a great river. Remember Persia, for example, Alexandria and the two mystical centuries of the Middle Ages...

I glean and collect quotes, aphorisms and little phrases from artists, writers and philosophers that appear daily on my Twitter Home Page. They are a bit like Ella Maillart's "Bribes de sagesses" who said in her beautiful book: "Europe continues to go wrong. Our civilization based on money is worthless. It is not money that counts, it is the spirit. Money kills the spirit." These are fragments of thoughts, little fireflies illuminating our drifting humanity and warming our hearts, as in this simple sentence uttered by Ichi: "Every being deprived of warmth eventually dies of cold." Excerpted from the film: Ichi, The Samurai Woman by Fumihiko Sori.
NB: This page is mostly written in French, but Twitters found in English are presented in English and translated bellow into French. You can follow the Twitter account of the artist on this page: jpsergentartist

This Pitch-Art video is presenting a miscellaneous selection of medium sized works on paper of the "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" new series. Mono-prints, acrylic hand silk-screened on white Rives BFK 250g, (56 x 76 cm), printed during Summer and Fall 2022.

This Pitch-Art video is presenting a miscellaneous selection of medium sized works on paper of the "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" new series. Mono-prints, acrylic hand silk-screened on white Rives BFK 250g, (76 x 56 cm), printed during Summer and Fall 2022.

This Pitch-Art video is presenting a miscellaneous selection of medium sized works on paper of the "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" new series. Mono-prints, acrylic hand silk-screened on yellow Wang paper 80g (60 x 80 cm), printed during Summer and Fall 2022.

This Pitch-Art video is presenting a miscellaneous selection of medium sized works on paper of the "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" new series. Mono-prints, acrylic hand silk-screened on yellow Wang paper 80g (80 x 60 cm), printed during Summer and Fall 2022.

Documentary film presenting the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent exposing the silk-screen frames of his new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes". Filmed by the artist on October 9 2022. (last video of the 2022 series)

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent signing his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. Filmed by the artist on October 24 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent signing his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 24 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent signing his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist and Lionel Georges on October 24 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 23 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 23 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 22 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. Filmed by Christine Chatelet on October 13 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist and Christine Chatelet on October 21 2022.

Documentary film presenting the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent exposing the silk-screen frames of his new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes". Filmed by the artist on October 20 2022.

Documentary film presenting the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent exposing the silk-screen frames of his new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes". Filmed by the artist on October 20 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 20 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 13 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 13 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. Filmed by the artist on October 12 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 12 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 11 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" [80 x 60 cm]. (Complete working session), filmed by the artist on October 11.

Documentary film presenting the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent exposing the silk-screen frames of his new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes". Filmed by the artist on October 9 2022.

Documentary film presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent silk-screening his new art prints series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" (80 x 60 cm). Filmed by the artist on October 6 2022.