Represented by

De Medicis Gallery

18, Place des Vosges

75004 Paris

01 40 29 92 11

https://www.demedicis-gallery.com/the-pop-surealist

Next Street Gallery

23, Place des Vosges

75003 Paris

01 42 78 10 10

www.nextstreetgallery.com

Le Réservoir

45-46 quai de Bosc,

34200 Sète

04 67 19 39 04

https://www.lereservoir-art.com/fr/artistes/surealist-the-pop

Studio Bleu de Prusse

Bex, Route des courtraits 30
Switzerland 🇨🇭

https://www.instagram.com/bleu_de_prusse/

Exhibitions

Octobre 2023 - Festival Parenthéses Urbaines - Roissy en Brie

Mars 2021 - Affordable Art Fair - London

Février 2021 - Festival Pour l’amour de l’art - Nantes

Janvier 2020 - Mirano - Solo Show - Paris

Mai 2019 - LE LAVO//MATIK - Exposition collective “les murs ouverts” - Paris

Mai 2019 - LA TERRASSE - Solo Show - Paris

 BIO & PHILOSOPHY

With the series «Make art with money», The Pop Suréalist questions our relationship with money and consumerism.

The Pop Suréalist is a French collagist street artist born in 1979. He graduated, with honors, from the École Supérieure d’Art Moderne of Paris. He has been working with analog collage since 2002.

In 2018, he began a series of collages of banknotes and associating them with human silhouettes cut out of old books and magazines dating from the 50s to the present day.

The Pop Suréalist gives life to the figures who illustrate the banknotes, such as Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein, Ernesto Guevara, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Ghandi among others.

The precision of the association between the banknote and its new silhouette immediately changes our perception of the image. The eye sees the character before seeing a banknote. The Surrealism trick is done.

The Pop Suréalist’s street collages raise profound questions about our fascination with money, which has become a quasi-religious icon. How can we explain our reflex to cling to this symbol, this grail, this piece of paper ?

As proof of this fascination, here’s a key fact : 30% of the works he sticks in the street are torn off. Not the whole work, just the banknote.

By immobilizing and desecrating real numbered banknotes, The Pop Suréalist plays with the law and develops the idea that banknotes are nothing more than a simple piece of paper that only have value if people give them value !
The value of mutual trust.

Aware of the dematerialization of money and its programmed disappearance by financial institutions, The Pop Suréalist acts as an archivist of collective memory, converting these soon-to-be obsolete currencies into timeless piece of art.

Using genuine banknotes and vintage paper also ensures that no copy of a work of art is possible.

With this collection of collages, The Pop Suréalist presents us with a poetic, surrealist, activist and intimate work in small and medium formats, which can be seen on the streets of many French and European cities, as well as on the walls of Parisian galleries such as « Le Lavomatik » and « Next Street Gallery ».