The Süyer

A novelist travels by proxy through his hero, as an extension of himself. It is on this principle that the young Parisian artist of 27 years The Süyer gave life to his character Süsü a few years ago.

Our world is punctuated by words, written or spoken, like an insatiable fear of a void, a silence, a confrontation with oneself. Our relationship to silence reveals something about ourselves. And Süsü , who can neither speak nor hear, is for him a means of making the link between this world and himself.

This mysterious figure, traveling through world and imagination, is called the explorer of lost paradises. Like an imaginary friend Süsü is at the crossroads of the imagination of the child and that of the adult.

His first intimate experience with drawing took place a decade ago, alternating between preparatory courses in Applied Arts and drawing first of live models then of characters coming out of his imagination with different looks and expressions. He created at this time what he would later call his "inventory of emotions".

It's been a few years now that The Süyer invades the streets of Paris with his paintings and his collages. His last collage "La Chute" (February 2020) is visible on the heights of Montmartre following the collage "The flight" of the swing bridge of the barn to the beauties in the 10th (November 2019) or the dressing of the Bistro "Les channeloles" in the 20th (October 2019) in painting on wood.

Great artistic emotional encounters will later shape his art and his character: Munch's cry and his shivers, Dali's dreamlike nature, Bacon's human atrocity, Zeng Fanhzi's uneasiness of polished masks, the anxiety of laughter. by Yue Minjun, the madness of Gérard Garouste's works or the lyricism of Claude Verlinde.

It is by this long road that will be born and will evolve its character Süsü and its dreamlike universe of its "organics". Loneliness, reverie, melancholy, childhood are all themes explored in the works of The Süyer .