34 INTERVIEWS | (x 106) VIDEOS
Digressions Into The Studio with Marie-Madeleine Varet (8 parts)
Series of eight interview videos between artist Jean-Pierre Sergent & the philosopher Marie-Madeleine Varet
Marie-Madeleine and I had been planning these interviews for more than two years. We had discussed them during numerous meetings at the workshop or during meals together when Marie-Madeleine had returned to Besançon from her many travels during her job. So it was with great joy and emotion that we finally found ourselves together with Lionel and Christine, during those days in October 2016, for the shooting of these small films.
The videos will serve mainly to share the enthusiastic, pertinent, and joyful comments of Marie-Madeleine about my work. We also hope that these videos will facilitate the understanding of Art in general and the openness to welcome this Art in our hearts, as a salutary and conciliatory nourishment for the spiritual development of everyone.
These eight video interviews were filmed at the Jean-Pierre’s studio in Besançon on the 6th and 7th of October (2016) by Lionel Georges with sound recordings and photos by Christine Chatelet.
The square units; The keys for understaning the work, the facets of a rubicube; Continuous and enveloping work; Cohesive energy; Axis mundi, the crossing of the directional axis and historical times etc... Read more...
To Paint is wishing for love; Vital energy, extreme desire; The vulva, the vortex, and the female sex; Fertility, the bodies of women; Otherness, yin-yang duality, the giving of one’s self; The organic chaos of desire in contradiction to the geometry of patterns; Relationships of the very superficial public (thematic). Read more...
The tomb of Nefertari, the mural art and the mortuary art; The question of eternity; Metamorphosis, the unconscious and the surreal; Transcendent, transversal, and marginal work; The memory, the archetype; The resolution of the whole into the multiple; The opening of awareness; The painting is the home of the ritual; Beyond the painting in metaphysics? - Read more...
Searching in myths, rites, and the eternally sacred; The mystic and archaic thoughts of ethnic cultures; Cross cutting the flesh of the cosmos; Transcendence of the artistic voyage, the transgression and the odyssey; Heuristic dimension of the work. Read more...
Color, frame, mystical blue. Read more...
Comment on a choice of works on paper from the Sketches series (1984/2003); American odysseus (shamanism); Genesis of the work, matrix: part / detail / fragment constituted from the beginning to make a whole by itself. unity of origin. - Read more...
Comment on a choice of art prints from the Bones, flowers & ropes series (2016). Read more...
Reading of quotes from authors and conclusion by Marie Madeleine Varet - Read more...