(x 6) Artist's and friends Lectures in Museums and galleries | 2019 - present
CONFERENCE "THE SHAKTI & THE METACOSMIC VOID" | Mulhouse Fine-Arts Museum | France (4 PARTS | 62:00)
Special thanks to the entire team at the Mulhouse Museum of Fine Arts, particularly the director, Ms. Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann, Ms. Edith Saurel, and Mr. Lionel Pinero. This video was filmed on March 13, 2026, during the group exhibition: "25 ANS D'ACQUISITIONS AU MUSÉE" (December 13, 2025 / May 3, 2026), on March 13, 2026. Camera crew: Jean-François Delamain & Bernard Ziegler. (English subtitles will be added soon...)
- SUBSECTION 1: IN THE VOID
"A true work of art destroys, in the viewer’s consciousness, the separation between the viewer and the artist. Art elevates man from his personal life to universal life." Léon Tolstoï
- FIRST OF ALL, A FEW WESTERN ARTISTS AND THE VOID: Rembrandt , Barnett Newman, Morris Louis, Jackson Pollock, Yves Klein
- SUBSECTION 2: SHAKTI, TANTRISM & SEXUAL RADIANCE [SMALL HINDU GOUACHES & SHORT EXCERPTS FROM THE "UPANISHADS]
"We must show the reality of things…" Jean-Luc Godard, The Image Book, 2018
MY ARTISTIC GOAL: To move beyond erotic aesthetics and enter into life and its own vital energies, to move beyond this concept, to shed, in a way, the reductive idea of eroticization and enter into the very structure of the living, spiritualized, through orgiastic drawings and the patterns of archaic or religious structures…
- (subsection 3) THE METACOSMIC VOID
- (subsection 4) SEXUALITY & SENSUALITY IN HINDU EROTICISM, THE PHALLUS (lingam), THE FEMALE BODY, THE VULVA (yoni)
- (sub-part 5) BREAKS IN LEVELS, TRANSGRESSIONS & SEXUAL RITES
- (sub-part 6) SILENCE & "THE INNER MAN AND HIS METAMORPHOSES" MARIE-MADELEINE DAVY
"DIVINIZED EROTICISM", ALAIN DANIELOU
"O, the luxury of my semen in the night of your thighs! Up above, the counterpart seed of the Milky Way." G. Lely
The purpose of the temple (as of the work of art) is to bring man closer to the divine, to create a passage, a link between the two. This purpose finds its expression in the representation of this act of union through which the lost individual being rediscovers his fullness, his wholeness, by uniting with that half of himself from which he felt separated.
Everywhere, at the main points of the temple and even at the entrance to the sanctuary, we find the act of love depicted, not as an act of reproduction but as an act of sensual pleasure, of full self-realization in the joy of this reunion.
This is not merely a symbolic representation. Man is truly whole, truly himself, truly close to the divine only in the moment of sexual pleasure...
Q&A WITH THE AUDIENCE [PART ONE]
Q&A WITH THE AUDIENCE [PART TWO - Full text]