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3. Jean Suzanne
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Notes of biography

Jean Suzanne was born in 1938 in Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine). His father is a mechanical engineer from the manufacturer of aircraft engine Hispano Suiza; as well as an amateur painter, who conveys his passion to his son. The young man follows technical studies in Paris between 1956 and 1960 (Breguet School, Paris). During a long time, he leads both artistic creation and electronic design (engineer, he will be responsible during several years of technical services in an electronics company).
Jean Suzanne leaves the Paris region in 1975 to settle in the Quercy (Tarn et Garonne, Puylaroque) where he immediately creates his sculpture studio. Build volumes in space! He first works wood and the stone, unceasingly seeking the simplification of forms and the purification of the plans. Leaving the industry, the artist (self-educated) chooses to focus exclusively on the Fine Arts from 1985, primarily to sculpture.
Over time, the artist will take part in many group exhibitions in Paris, Grands et Jeunes d'aujourd'hui (Nowadays elder and younger), Réalités Nouvelles (New Realities), Jeune Peinture (Youth painting), Salon de Mai (May Salon), Comparaison (Comparison) and in province (Toulouse, Bordeaux, Narbonne, Collioure, etc). In 1986, Jean Suzanne won the price of the city of Montauban during the exhibition of Art Meeting « Les non figuratifs du midi autour d'Atlan » (“The Non-figuratifs of the midi around Atlan). He creates, by 1988, for the public order the realization of monumental sculptures (Montauban, Collège of Nègrepelisse, Château of Gueugnon, Château of Sanary, Musée of Lavelanet, Ville of Albi, etc). In 1993, Jean Suzanne won the Price Henry Moore during an important biennial sculpture event organized by the Hakone Museum of Tokyo in Japan (“La Brèche” - “The Breach”, stainless steel); this sculpture is since being exhibited at the outdoor Museum of Utsukushi-Ga-Hara in the Japanese Alps (about a hundred kilometers of Tokyo). Many of his works are part of public and private collections in France and abroad (Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy and Japan).
“The sculpture of Jean Suzanne stand out by the osmosis between the impulse and the refinement of the spirit which reveals to his work all its authenticity,” writes Lydia Harambourg (Foreword of the catalogue of exhibition Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, 1997).

The artist experiments with light on concave and convex forms, with polished and rough matters, motionless and mobile (directional on axes or by simple shift), engaging not only the famous dialogue between the vacuum and the fullness, but also with the internal and external, the heart and the spirit.

Jean Suzanne, who sensuality curves steel with the calls of the light, has a clear and human language; nowadays, he still lives and works in Puylaroque.

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