EXHIBITION JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT, “EROTICA / WORKS ON PAPER”
Vernissage: December 13, 2024 from 4 pm to 8 pm
Opening hours 2pm to 7pm Wednesday to Saturday and by appointment
GALLERY KELLER
7 Proudhon Street
25000 Besançon
France
Contact:
Heidi Suter
Tel fixe: +33 9 56 76 45 54
Tel mobile: +41 79 329 58 56
Email: hs.kellergalerie@gmail.com
www.kellergalerie.ch
Gallery owner Heidi Suter, who has run two successive galleries in Zurich for almost forty years, is now opening a new exhibition space in the heart of Besançon. For this first show, she will be presenting the work of French-New York artist Jean-Pierre Sergent, who lives and works in Besançon and with whom she has been collaborating for over ten years. His work has been exhibited internationally since the 90s: in the USA, Europe, Iran and China, and in September 2019 to September 2023, a monumental fresco of 72 paintings on Plexiglas, measuring 80 m2, Les quatre piliers du ciel, was presented at the Besançon Fine-Arts Museum.
On show for the first time: a selection of eight new works on paper (selected from a range of 566 prints), from his brand-new series Karma-Kali, Sexual Dreams & Paradoxes, created during the summer and autumn of 2024. These are one-of-a-kind works, acrylic hand silkscreened with Indian ink highlights on 120g white Gmund Hanf paper, size 100 x 70 cm, as well as on 250g white Rives BFK paper, size 76 x 56 cm. A selection of some twenty small formats from his series Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances (2016 – 2020), 25 x 25 cm, will also be on display, with also a large painting on Plexiglas from the Mayan Diary 2010 series, 1.40 x 1.40 m : Metacosmic Void and the Bindu Point in the Ocean of Pure Consciousness (in reference to a Hindu yantra).