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.

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.

REPORT & STATE OF THE ART

"There really are centuries when the soul goes back to sleep and no one cares anymore." in The awakening of the soul, in The treasure of the humble by Maurice Maeterlinck
Art is not only an exoticism of the living because it has a soul of its own. And our contemporary European and French world, in particular, is so inhabited by a pervasive "sadness", very dark and contagious, that it is difficult for us artists to float, whatever it takes, in the middle of this deleterious environment. Art and ourselves are like icebergs lost in the open sea, but buried, drowned by the non-salinity of this unsalty, burying water...

230 new photos of the art prints completed during Fall 2020 of the série Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances, printed mainly in unique prints, acrylic hand silk-screened and Indian ink on white Rives BFK 250g paper, unframed size dimensions: 25,5 x 25,5 cm / 10''x10''.

180 new photos of the art prints completed during Fall 2020 from the série Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances, printed mainly in unique prints and limited editions of 5, acrylic hand silk-screened and Indian ink on yellow Wang 80g paper, unframed size dimensions: 25,5 x 25,5 cm / 10''x10''.

91 new photos showing the artist completing the different steps of the silkscreening process in order to continue his new series of the Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances, begun in Fall 2016.
Monotypes or editions of 5, acrylic hand silkscreened on yellow Wang Sketching paper 80g & white B.F.K. Rives paper, 280g, 25,5 x 25,5 cm / 10''x10''.

Series of 161 photos-portraits showing the artist completing the different steps of the silk-screening process in order to continue his series of the Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances at his Besançon Studio's during the Summer and Fall 2020.
- #1-49, Photos by Lionel Georges, August 27th and September 8th.
- #50-175, 14 working sessions on September 30, October 25, 27 and 31, November 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17 and 26.

Series of photos showing the artist completing the different steps of the silk-screening process in order to continue his series of the Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances. Photos taken by the artist or by photographer Lionel Georges at the Besançon Studio during the Fall 2020.

Photos showing the artist completing the different steps of the silkscreening process in order to continue his new series of the Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances, begun in Fall 2016.
Monotypes or editions of 5, acrylic hand silkscreened on yellow Wang Sketching paper 80g & white B.F.K. Rives paper, 280g, 25,5 x 25,5 cm / 10''x10''.

16 new Portraits-Videos presenting artist Jean-Pierre Sergent completing the different steps of the silk-screening process in order to continue his Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances series. Filmed mainly by the artist or by Lionel Georges during the Fall 2020.

Series of 10 new Pitch-Art videos showing working sessions of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent screen printing works on yellow Wang Sketching 80g or white or cream B.F.K. Rives 250g papers (25 x 25 cm), for his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on Fall 2020.

Video-Portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent signing up his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on November 12th 2020.

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 November 17th 2020.

Video-Portrait presenting Jean-Pierre Sergent screen-printing his new "Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances" series. Filmed by the artist on November 17th 2020.

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 November 14th 2020.