Video-Portrait presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on August 18 & 19 2021.

Pitch-Art video showing a working session of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen printing works on yellow Wang Sketching 80g or white B.F.K. Rives 250g papers (25 x 25 cm), for his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on August 12 & 13 2021.

Video-Portrait presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on August 12 & 13 2021.

Pitch-Art video showing a working session of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen printing works on yellow Wang Sketching 80g or white B.F.K. Rives 250g papers (25 x 25 cm), for his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on August 10 2021.

Video-Portrait presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on August 10 2021.

Pitch-Art video showing a working session of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen printing works on yellow Wang Sketching 80g or white B.F.K. Rives 250g papers (25 x 25 cm), for his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on August 6 & 8 2021.

Video-Portrait presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on August 6 & 8 2021.

Pitch-Art video showing a working session of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen printing works on yellow Wang Sketching 80g or white B.F.K. Rives 250g papers (25 x 25 cm), for his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on July 29 2021.

Publication of English transcription of the interviews between the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent and Thierry Savatier (Art Historian and world specialist of Gustave Courbet's work) filmed at the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology on July 2, in the London magazine Luxury Splash Of Art. Article edited by Agnieszka Kowalczewska and Kamila Krzyzaniak

Video-Portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on July 29 2021.

Pitch-Art video showing a working session of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen printing works on yellow Wang Sketching 80g or white B.F.K. Rives 250g papers (25 x 25 cm), for his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on July 28 2021.

Video-Portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on July 28 2021.

Video-Portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist and Lionel Georges on July 27 2021.

Pitch-Art video showing a working session of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen printing works on yellow Wang Sketching 80g or white B.F.K. Rives 250g papers (25 x 25 cm), for his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on July 25 & 26 2021.

Video-Portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on July 26 2021.

Canoeing in the Doubs Basins, a river that forms the border between Switzerland and France. The artist presents the place where he often goes canoeing. We discover the beauty of nature, the timeless presence of rocks and the changing fluidity of the river. Cameras : Lionel Georges, Christine Chatelet and Jean-François Delamain. Filmed on site on September 18, 2021.

Pitch-Art video showing a working session of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen printing works on yellow Wang Sketching 80g or white B.F.K. Rives 250g papers (25 x 25 cm), for his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on July 22 & 23 2021.

Video-Portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on July 22 & 23 2021.

Documentary film showing the artist blocking the small pinholes on the silk-screen frames of the "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on June 26 2021.

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. This webpage is for now only available in it's French version.

Video Interview-Discussion between artist Jean-Pierre Sergent and Thierry Savatier, art historian about the four pillars of the sky artist's exhibition at the museum of fine arts and archaeology of Besançon. In collaboration with Luxury Splash of Art Magazine of London, Agnieszka Kowalczewska. The film crew: Lionel Georges, Christine Chatelet, Louise Prevel. Filmed at the museum on July 2nd 2021.

Documentary film showing the artist exposing his silk-screen frames of the "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on June 21 2021.

Documentary film showing the artist exposing his silk-screen frames of the "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on June 21st 2021.

Video-Portrait showing the artist taping two positives films together of the images for the printing of his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on June 18 2021.

Canoeing in the Doubs Basins, a river that forms the border between Switzerland and France. The artist presents the place where he often goes canoeing. He talks about the beauty of Nature, the timeless presence of the rocks and he protests against the total felling of trees in 2019 on several places of this beautiful and precious natural site, in order to strip the rocks to better show them to the tourists... Thus creating an irreparable ecological disaster. Images : Lionel Georges & paddling : Valérie Georges

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

Art, like sex, has to do with the transcendences of reality, colours, pleasure and death...
Jean-Pierre Sergent – French artist, born in the small town of Morteau (1958) in the northeast of France. Studied architecture in Strasbourg and painting at l’école des Beaux-Arts in Besançon (1978-1981). Jean-Pierre settled in Montreal (1991-1992) where he developed his repertory of artistic form and had successively three studios in New York in Brooklyn, Chelsea and Queens (1993-2003), then he returned home to his native France again (2004) in the City of Besançon where he is living and working now.  He has exhibited in France, Canada, the US, Switzerland, England, Austria and China...

The artist Jean-Pierre Sergent and Art Historian Thierry Savatier, world specialist of Gustave Courbet, are exchanging about some erotical works of art of the artist realized since his New York years (1993-2003) until nowadays, during his exhibition: "The 4 pillars of the sky". Filmed by Lionel Georges, Louise Prevel and Lea Bruckert in the Conference Room of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon on September 19, 2020. Transcriptions by Karine Joyerot.

JPS: So I wanted firstly present you some of my erotic works, and you also wanted to talk about the large scale format… So  I am going to present a few large-format works, so that the public understands where I come from and how I started to develop this work, which is a bit organic somewhere, you see! So we're going to project visuals... Some large murals installations! And I wanted to quote Jack Kerouac, who's an author I love, and of course those American writers who wrote in the 50s and 60s in the United States, where there was a huge social upheaval going on, that is to say, what we can call the disappearance of spirituality. And Kerouac went on the road... Transcriptions by Karine Joyerot

This pitch-art video is presenting a miscellaneous selection from small works on paper of the "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series: monoprints, acrylic hand silkscreened on yellow Wang Sketching paper 80g (25,5 x 25,5 cm / 10''x10''), Fall 2020.