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 September 13 2022.

Transcription in the English Art Magazine Luxury Splash of Art of the artist talk given by Jean-Pierre Sergent during his exhibition: Polyphonies : Arts, Cultures & Civilizations given at the Orangerie Gallery, in Sauvigney-les-Gray, France, May 15 2022. London December 1st 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 September 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). Filmed by the artist on September 08 2022.

Documentary film showing the artist blocking the small pinholes on the silk-screen frames of the new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" (80 x 60 cm). Filmed by the artist on September 08 2022.

Documentary film presenting the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent drawing with Indian ink on positive films the images of his new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes". Filmed by the artist on September 2 2022.
 

Second version of the documentary film presenting the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent drawing with Indian ink on positive films the images of his new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes". Filmed by the artist on July 30, 2022.

The artist talks with Nicolas Surlapierre, Director of the Museum, about his mural installation: "The Four Pillars of Heaven" (80 m2) at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besançon on June 30 2023.

Nicolas Surlapierre: Jean-Pierre, I am quite happy that we are resuming these interviews, we did not do it some time ago, I would say almost two years ago. We were in the conference room of the Museum where we had presented a series of small, beautiful and erotic serigraphs. We had a discussion that lasted an hour and a half or two hours, I don't remember. And some time later, I had observed the videos and had found, how many elements that were said to me, directly, had escaped me...

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Karine Bertrand: Hello Jean-Pierre.

Jean-Pierre Sergent: Hello Karine.

KB: I am delighted to be here and thank you for your invitation.

JPS: You're more than welcome! 

KB: So, we're going to share this little moment together, so you invited me for my skills as a sexologist?

JPS: Yes, but not only that, I think you really appreciate my work... And so it was an idea to have a little exchange like that, a little informal, to discuss a little bit about my work and about life in general.

KB: So I'm delighted to be able to talk about your work and to give you my opinion as a sexologist, but also on the intimate (personal) view, your work really appealed to me; as you know, I really like your work. I was very touched by this work the first time I saw it. I am even more delighted to exchange with you. So, why was I touched by this work? 

Artist text statement's of the new series Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes 2022 :

KARMA-KALI, SEXUAL DREAMS & PARADOXES

"What light outside of life? Is it in or out of this mass of images? [...]
Transcendence demands - your fear of being torn apart."

The Art must smell the sperm and sulfur or both at the same time! Otherwise, it is only fragmentary and demonstrative representation of emotional and sentimental memories of times gone by and lost forever. 
The Art is the present. In the same way as our erotic dreams which reintegrate us, sometimes well in spite of us, in the incommensurable encompassing matrix of the Living. In the great mechanism: sex-life-birth-death: construction versus destruction...

Series of 34 Portraits-Photos taken by photographer Christine Chatelet showing the artist silk-screening the images of her new series of prints on paper: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes", on October 10, 2022.

Series of 21 Portraits-Photos taken by photographer Lionel Georges showing the artist signing the silk-screened works of his new series of prints on paper: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes", October 10, 2022.

Series of 45 photos taken during the interview between Jean-Pierre Sergent & Karine Bertrand (sexologist), at the workshop on October 28, 2022. Cameras : Lionel Georges and photos by Christine Chatelet .

Photos of the new series "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes", acrylic hand silk-screened and Indian ink on Rives BFK 250g paper, unique prints, 76 x 56 cm. Silk-screened during Summer and Fall 2022.

Photos of the new series "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes", acrylic hand silk-screened and Indian ink on yellow Wang Sketching 80g paper, unique prints, 80 x 60 cm. Silk-screened during Summer and Fall 2022.

Jean-Pierre Sergent and Karine Bertrand are exchanging about the erotic works of JPS. Filmed at the Besançon Studio on October 28 2022. Cameras: Lionel Georges and Christine Chatelet.

Jean-Pierre Sergent and Karine Bertrand are exchanging about the erotic works of JPS. Filmed at the Besançon Studio on October 28 2022. Cameras: Lionel Georges and Christine Chatelet. 

Jean-Pierre Sergent and Karine Bertrand are exchanging about the erotic works of JPS. Filmed at the Besançon Studio on October 28 2022. Cameras: Lionel Georges and Christine Chatelet.

Jean-Pierre Sergent and Karine Bertrand are exchanging about the erotic works of JPS. Filmed at the Besançon Studio on October 28 2022. Cameras: Lionel Georges and Christine Chatelet.

Jean-Pierre Sergent and Karine Bertrand are exchanging about the erotic works of JPS. Filmed at the Besançon Studio on October 28 2022. Cameras: Lionel Georges and Christine Chatelet

Series of 70 photos showing a working silk-screening cession of Jean-Pierre Sergent during the summer of 2022 in his Besançon Studio's, for the realization 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.

Series of 34 B&W photos showing Jean-Pierre Sergent working during the summer of 2022 on the various stages of exposing the silkscreen frames, in his Besançon Studio's, for the realization of the 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.

Series of 70 B&W Portraits-Photos taken by photographer Christine Chatelet showing the artist exposing and developing his silkscreen frames of the images of his new "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" prints on paper series, September 27 2022.

2 Series of 34 & 49 Portraits-Photos taken by photographer Christine Chatelet showing the artist exposing and developing his silkscreen frames of the images of his new "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" prints on paper series, September 2 & 14 2022.

Series of 34 Portraits-Photos taken by photographer Lionel Georges showing the artist silk-screening the images of his new "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes" small prints on paper series, September 12th 2022

Series of Portrait-Photos taken by professional photographers showing the artist working through the various stages of the silkscreen process to produce his new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes", Summer and Fall 2022. Photos by Christine Chatelet and Lionel Georges.

JPS is going to present, with the Keller Gallery from Zurich, one large painting on Plexiglas from the Mayan Diary series (1,05 x 1,05 m, 2010) and twelve small unique prints from his current Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances series (38 x 38 cm, 2017 - 2020).
23, 24, 25 September, 11 am to 8 pm | Day ticket: 15 CHF
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Series of photos showing Jean-Pierre Sergent working during the summer of 2022 on the various stages of the artistic process, in his studio in Besançon, for the realization of the series: Bones, Ropes & Flowers. 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.

Documentary film presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent drawing with Indian ink on positive films the images of his new series: "Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes". Filmed by the artist on July 29, 2022.

    "Let us have contempt of any subjection,
    We, the sons of the vast universe, [...]
    Lords of the world, will go as we please
    Wherever we please, free of all control."¹

I am writing this text at the end of July, beginning of August 2022, after having read the very beautiful novel Bartleby by Herman Melville, with the powerful afterword by Gilles Deleuze (about which it would be interesting to write also a small text). This reading strongly moved me and touched my deepest self and destabilized me. Perhaps, without a doubt, because of the beauty of the character, this Bartleby, refusing the world and who goes away, towards his death, without saying anything, without eating, without a complaint...

1  The Encatadas, The Barrington Island & the Buccaneers, Herman Melville