PAINTINGS FROM FRANCE 2009-2011: THE MANGAS, YANTRAS Y OTRAS COSAS SERIES, is presenting a Miscellaneous selection of a new series of small works on paper: monoprints and editions of 5 prints, acrylic hand silkscreened on B.F.K. Rives paper, 25 x 25 cm. About the work: The print's images come mostly from Japanese mangas* sexual cartoons, Hindus Yantras* meditations drawings and genetics patterns from archaic cultures.
*Mangas : Japanese's comics, mostly depicting sexually explicit or pornographic scenes. They came traditionally from the Shunga erotics art drawing from the 19 century woodblock printing masters as Hokusai, and Utamaro etc.
*Yantra : symbols or geometric figures, traditionally used in Eastern mysticism to balance the mind or focus it on spiritual concepts. The act of drawing or concentrating on a yantra is held to have spiritual, astrological or magical benefits in the Tantric traditions of the Indian religions, creating a kind of cosmic interconnexion.
http://www.j-psergent.com/en/artwork/works-on-paper/small-paper/mangas-yantras-y-otras-cosas
This new video series of Corpus-Archives, realized in February 2015, aims to present to the large public a selection of about twenty still images of paintings or art works, completed at several different studios locations where Jean-Pierre Sergent lived in during his artistic career. Places like his former farm in France, his different studios in Montreal, Canada, and in Brooklyn, Chelsea and Long island City in New York, to finally show the work he is currently doing nowadays in his new studio in Besançon, East of side of France. http://www.j-psergent.com/en/studio.
JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT is a French-American artist, he developed his repertory of artistic forms in the United States and continues to work and exhibit regularly in France and the rest of Europe. He recently exhibited at two solo exhibitions in major French museums: the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Mulhouse in 2011 and the Courbet Farm of Flagey in 2102. In 2013, he had two solo shows, one of large works on paper: "Sex & Rituals" at the Omnibus Gallery of Besançon, France, and the other: "Cultures-Energies", at the Kunstpalais in Badenweiler, Germany. To learn more about Jean-Pierre Sergent's works, please visit his webpage: http://www.j-psergent.com, and also like his Facebook artist page: https://www.facebook.com/jpsergentartist
