INTERVIEW WITH J-P SERGENT FOR THE DIVERSION MAGAZINE | MBAA | 12.18.2019

Описание: This exhibition is entitled: The Four Pillars of Heaven; it's a bit in reference to all tribal societies that always have a center of the world somewhere, they are the Axis mundis. The places where one can communicate with an elsewhere.
We live today only on one horizontal plane and other cultures also live on a more vertical plane, (in other dimensions). We can also feel this in cathedrals, but this vertical plane is much higher within shamans for example.
The scenography was imposed by the architecture of the place, that is to say that there is four angles in the museum stairs, that the director Mr. Nicolas Surlapierre, proposed me to install my paintings there. So I thought a little about the works I wanted to put there. But this idea of spiritual elevation interests me particularly.
Each corner panel includes nine paintings, most of these paintings are from a series called: Entropic Suites, that is to say that in my work, I like to put as much information as possible, because I think that each culture has its own limitations. So what shocks me a little is to be limited in my thought and in my imagination. So to add a lot of things into an artwork, that's what interests me! When I do large wall installations like this one, what's important is not to repeat the images too much, because I work in a serial way, so the images are found on four or five paintings in a row, so I try not to assemble the same image side by side and eventually, not to have a a colored stripe, that is to say that if I had, in these panels placed three yellow paintings side by side, it would make a yellow band, so it would not be a whole, the notion of wholeness interests me particularly.
I have just exhibited in Lugano at the Wopart, it's a contemporary art fair of works on paper only, and I'm working with my gallery in Zurich with whom we just had an exhibition with the works shown in this fair, and this year I'll be working with the Nouvelle Laurentine, which is a contemporary art centre located in Chaumont where they have a large industrial space in which they'll probably present a huge wall installation on the theme of voluptuousness, voluptuousness! So I'm looking forward to working on these themes, because all my work is a bit based on spiritual ecstasy and erotic ecstasy!

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