My dear friend Johnes Ruta (curator and art critic) decided to read the text TRANSVERSALITY by my dear friend Marie-Madeleine Varet (philosopher), which he had liked very much, and so here is this beautiful impromptu video:

- An excerpt from the philosopher Marie-Madeleine Varet, French. On the work of the artist Jean-Pierre Sergent : TRANSVERSALITY. It is part of the traversée of contemporary art, a journey, a path: "... there is no end, only the path. But I'd like to be, modestly and on my own scale, like the great jazz drummers: jazz drummers are always just a little ahead of the music playing, and that's what makes the soloists pulsate and throws the musicians they accompany totally forward. When you're slightly ahead of the beat, it's because you're doing your job well." Jean-Claude Guillaumon, "L'art, fabrication ou transgression", 2007.


- Read all the other texts: - 12 CRITICAL TEXTS BY MARIE-MADELEINE VARET (PHILOSOPHER) ABOUT THE WORK OF JPS [2013 - 2024]

Movie of a canoeing trip in the Doubs Basins, the River that forms the border between Switzerland and France. The artist presents the place where he often goes canoeing. We discover the beauty of nature, the timeless presence of rocks and the changing fluidity of the river and in spring time, the powerful renewal of nature.

Movie of a canoeing trip in the Doubs Basins, a river that forms the border between Switzerland and France. The artist presents the place where he often goes canoeing. We discover the beauty of nature, the timeless presence of rocks and the changing fluidity of the river. Cameras : Lionel Georges, Christine Chatelet, Jean-François Delamain

Canoeing in the Doubs Basins, a river that forms the border between Switzerland and France. The artist presents the place where he often goes canoeing. He talks about the beauty of Nature, the timeless presence of the rocks and he protests against the total felling of trees in 2019 on several places of this beautiful and precious natural site, in order to strip the rocks to better show them to the tourists... Thus creating an irreparable ecological disaster. Images : Lionel Georges & paddling : Valérie Georges

List of thirty artworks evoked in the interview (4/5) with the art historian Thierry Savatier on 29 July 2019.

Artist movie filmed by Christine Chatelet in the Besançon studio. Jean-Pierre Sergent is trying on 8 Mayan masks of Mayan popular traditions: El Tigre, El Diabolo etc... That he had acquired during his numerous Mexican trips...