Video-portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on October 25th 2020.

Video-portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent blocking the small pinholes on the screens for printing his new series "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances". Filmed by the artist on September 30, 2020.

Documentary film showing the artist exposing his silk-screen frames of the "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by Lionel Georges on September 8th 2020.

Presentation of Jean-Pierre Sergent's work by Rémi Lombardot for his blog De Artibus Sequanis: "My work presents the latest traces of the opposition struggles between traditional multicultural societies and our monocultural global society, as well as the latest confrontations between nomadic tribes and sedentary civilizations. Money, sex, barbarity and pornography values the immediacy of our deritualized and desacralized daily life in frontal opposition to the wisdom, spirituality, beauty, humanity, patience, cosmic time, social-cultural patterns of traditional societies. The main confrontation being the relationship of the physical body with its slow and deep rhythms with the accelerated time due to the speed of information transmission and the destructive frenzy of the desire to accumulate, produce and consume, never reached before in our history."

Radio campus Besançon sets up its studios in the conference room of the MBAA for this special broadcast in partnership with the mobile art center concerning the exhibition: "The 4 Pillars of the Sky". With : Around the table : J-P Sergent, painter, Nicolas Bousquet, responsible for the cultural development of the Museum and Louis Ucciani, Director of the Mobile Art Center and Senior Lecturer at the University of Franche-Comté. Students of the LP METI, Chloé Truchon, Alexie le Coroller and Amélie Pérardot. Filmed by the artist on September 10, 2020.

I glean and retrieve quotes and short sentences from artists, writers and philosophers appearing daily on my Twitter Home Page. They are a bit like in Ella Maillart's Snippets of Wisdom, who said in her beautiful book: "Europe is still going in the wrong direction. Our civilization based on money is worthless. It's not money that counts, it's the spirit. Money kills the spirit." These are fragments of thoughts, little fireflies lighting our drifting humanity and warming our hearts, as in that simple phrase uttered by Ichi: "Anyone deprived of warmth ends up freezing to death." Excerpt from the film: Ichi, The Samurai Woman by Fumihiko Sori. Read more...

In this last part, they discuss the current works: the Shakti*-Yoni, Ecstatic Cosmic Danses series (2016-2020) : *Shakti is in Hinduism the divine feminine energy, and the consort of Shiva. "She is the goddess to the absolute, of which all the feminine deities are only aspects", according to Alexandra David-Néel. And JPS concludes on with this sentence of the film Ichi, The Blind Samurai Woman by Fumihiko Sori: "All beings deprived of heat end up dying of cold"...

In this second part, the artist talks about the first series of New York works on Plexiglas and on paper with an essentially erotic content: Dionysus, perpetual orgy or the organs of life (1998), Duality (1999) and The dream of the imprisoned man - inspired by a Marquis de Sade text (1998-2002)...

In this first part, they evoke the development of the structure of the monumental works (around the square and the void) of wall paintings on Plexiglas, including the installation: "The 4 Pillars of the Sky" currently exhibited at the MBAA...

Thierry Savatier evokes the works of erotic arts by Picasso, L'Etreinte (1969) and Raphael et la Fornarina (1968) through Thérèse rêvant (1938) by Balthus, Dirty Corner (2015) by Anish Kapoor etc. To finish with the series with the Entropic Suites n°22 & 26 (2011-2015) by Jean-Pierre Sergent etc.

Thierry Savatier evokes works of erotic art from the Renaissance: The Vulva (16th) by Leonardo da Vinci (16th), Lucas Cranach, La Nymphe à la source (1537) until the 19th century with the works of Jean-Baptiste Clésinger: La Femme piquée par un serpent, (1847) Le Sommeil (1866) and L'Origine du monde (1866) by Gustave Courbet etc.

Thierry Savatier evokes works of erotic art from Prehistory (Venus of Willendorf (22.000 B.C.), the Scene of the well of Lascaux (18.000. B.C.) until the Renaissance with The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1484) and The Three Graces by Raphael (1504) etc.

Published by the MBAA (graphic designer Thierry Saillard) with texts by Nicolas Surlapierre (director of the Beesançon center's museum): "Pushing screams" and "Insider beds", Thierry Savatier (art historian): "The four pillars of the sky", Marie-Madeleine Varet (philosopher) : "Metaphor and metamorphosis", Pierre Bongiovanni (curator): "Journey to the end of man's possible: the question of eroticism and ecstasy in the painted work of Jean-Pierre Sergent", Florence Andoka (journalist): "One way or another". This catalog is available at the bookstore on the first floor of the museum (price 10€).

3:00 pm : Thierry Savatier, art historian & specialist of Gustave Courbet : Erotic Art 
4.00 pm : Discussion with Jean-Pierre Sergent : Eros Unlimited II
6:00 pm: Signing of Thierry Savatier's books: Picasso, this never-extinct volcano, by Roland Dumas and Thierry Savatier and The Origin of the World, The History of a Painting by Gustave Courbet as well as the JPS exhibition catalog at the museum store.

To listen again to the beautiful Radio Campus program by Aurélien Bertini with : Jean-Pierre Sergent, Nicolas Bousquet and Louis Ucciani at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon, September 10th 2020 from 7 to 8 pm. Editing the video interview is in progress and will be available soon.

J-P Sergent discusses with N. Surlapierre about his current mural installation: The Four Pillars of the Sky (80 m2) at the MBAA, as well as excerpts from texts by Antonin Artaud from the book Le théâtre et son double. With: Nicolas Surlapierre, director of the museums of the Besançon Centre, Nicolas Bousquet, head of the cultural development, coordination and proofreading, Lionel Georges & Christine Chatelet, camera, Romain Monaci, transcription, Fabien Paillot, logistical assistance.

J-P Sergent discusses with N. Surlapierre about his current mural installation: The Four Pillars of the Sky (80 m2) at the MBAA, as well as about about twenty images from different cultures (Mexican, Japanese, Oceanian etc.) chosen by the artist. With: Nicolas Surlapierre, director of the museums of the Besançon Centre, Nicolas Bousquet, head of the cultural development, coordination and proofreading, Lionel Georges & Christine Chatelet, camera, Romain Monaci, transcription, Fabien Paillot, logistical assistance.

J-P Sergent discusses with N. Surlapierre about his current mural installation: Les quatre piliers du ciel (80 m2) at the MBAA, as well as about about twenty images from different cultures (Mexican, Japanese, Oceanian etc.) chosen by the artist. With: Nicolas Surlapierre, director of the museums of the Besançon Centre, Nicolas Bousquet, head of the cultural development, coordination and proofreading, Lionel Georges & Christine Chatelet, camera, Romain Monaci, transcription, Fabien Paillot, logistical assistance.

J-P Sergent discusses with N. Surlapierre about his current mural installation: The Four Pillars of the Sky (80 m2) at the MBAA, as well as about about twenty images from different cultures (Mexican, Japanese, Oceanian etc.) chosen by the artist. With: Nicolas Surlapierre, director of the museums of the Besançon Centre, Nicolas Bousquet, head of the cultural development, coordination and proofreading, Lionel Georges & Christine Chatelet, camera, Romain Monaci, transcription, Fabien Paillot, logistical assistance. 
 

Interview with Catherie Jeanson : 1/Your works will be included in the exhibition "Voluptés". Couldn't you dream of a better way to enjoy life?
- Yes, of course! This exhibition was made possible thanks to my friends Maryse Garinginet and Pierre Bongiovani who were preparing this big summer exhibition "Voluptés" and who came to my studio in December 2019, where Pierre discovered my monumental work. We then decided to present an anthology of erotic works...

Transcript of the filmed interview between the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent & Nicolas Surlapierre, director of the centre's museums at the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology, filmed on 24 June 2020.

Installation of a monumental mural on Plexiglas by Jean-Pierre Sergent "Cosmic Mechanics of Climax" with assistant Jean-François Delamain, composed of 24 paintings of 1.05 x 1.05 m, (8.40 x 3.15 m). Filmed on July 9, 2020, at the Voluptés exhibition organized by La Nouvelle Laurentine. Thanks to the Curators, Pierre Bongiovanni & Maryse Garinginet.

Series of twenty photos showing the installation of a monumental mural on Plexiglas by Jean-Pierre Sergent "Cosmic Mechanics of Climax" with assistant Jean-François Delamain, composed of 24 paintings of 1.05 x 1.05 m, (8.40 x 3.15 m). Filmed on July 9, 2020, at the Voluptés exhibition organized by La Nouvelle Laurentine. Special thanks: Curators, Pierre Bongiovanni & Maryse Garinginet, scenography by Yoris Van Den Houte, Marc Lenoel & all the Nouvelle Laurentine's team.

Short documentary film presenting JP Sergent in his workshop working on his Shakti-Yoni series a short interview with him and a miscellaneous selection of his art works. Filmed by Vincent Vernier on November 13 & 22 2019, for Café Gourmand Production.

Printing of two leaflets "Shakti-Yoni, 2019" & "The Four Pillars of Heaven, 2019-2020" from the eponymous exhibition at the MBAA in Besançon (46 x 69 cm) at the Simon Graphic print shop, Ornans, France, June 25, 2020.

13 photos of the printing of two leaflets "Shakti-Yoni, 2019" & "The Four Pillars of Heaven, 2019-2020" from the eponymous exhibition at the MBAA in Besançon (46 x 69 cm) at the Simon Graphic print shop, Ornans, France, June 25, 2020.

Selection and packaging of the twenty-four paintings on Plexiglas for the exhibition Voluptés (25 m2) at La Nouvelle Laurentine, with Jean-François Delamain. Filmed at the studio by Lionel Georges on June 15, 2020.

Four small serigraphs from the Shakti-Yoni series are presented at the Sayé Gallery in Tehran. Curator of the exhibition, the director Babak Baharestani.

Group exhibition organized by La Nouvelle Laurentine with the installation of a large mural by Jean-Pierre Sergent of 24 (1.05 x 1.05 m) paintings on Plexiglas, acrylic silk-screen printed on Plexiglas with an overall dimensions of 8.40 m long by 3.15 m hight. Curators: Pierre Bongiovani & Maryse Garinginet + Exhibition page