“Attention, ladies and gentlemen, in a moment it will begin!”.
Fugain had sung it.
We had been warned… With Sylvie Malys, barely installed, the words slam like in a room on the boulevard.
Consonants and vowels swing.
Parentheses and quotation marks open.
The words are discovered.
The cedillas apostrophize each other.
Verbs swell.
The images are metaphorized on the garden side when the apocopes spring up on the courtyard side.
We smile.
We laugh.
Sometimes, the emotion goes a head.
50 shades of energy
From Gabon where she was born, to Reunion where she spent her teenage years... All the way to Paris, Sylvie draws, paints, sculpts her lives with 50 shades of energy.
She freely confesses:
"Since my youngest age, I have loved to create and play comedy."
No wonder we see her, here, giving the reply to Muriel Robin, there, as a guest star in several TV series.
But it was at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris and on tour that she blossomed and stood out in this comedy of controlled origin
Génie du Vin
in which she played three Desperate HouseWines.
Today, we find her for 60 dates at the Théâtre des Mathurins in
Toquée
, a single on stage written and directed by Michel Thibaud.
“In this new show, I wanted to bring 24 hours of a wedding to life.
I play six characters including a crazy wedding planner, an obsessed photographer, an eccentric wedding witness or even a chef in love in love….
They are all crazier than each other.
I also wanted this show to end with music and I'm very happy that the clip was shot at the Rungis International Market with the real traders.
It was a wonderful moment.
Toquée
seemed to me to be the appropriate title.
Anecdotes
From theater to drawing, painting and sculpture, we find a link in this artist: gastronomy.
“I believe that my best encounters have taken place around a table.
Indeed, I cannot dissociate the arts with a capital A from gastronomy.
This is certainly why I write or paint to play with words or colors, like chefs with spices or flavors.
I work and sculpt the material, as they sublimate a product.
In a nutshell, I like to bring emotions to life and share them.
Right now, it's on stage."
Sylvie Malys never stops.
And, it was not the Covid that altered his thirst for creation.
On the contrary.
One day, confined to her workshop where she made the Volant des Chefs trophies or even those of the Best Sommelier in France, she had an idea.
"I was looking at my sculptures and I wanted to suggest that chefs choose one of my works in bronze, sandstone, plaster or concrete and reinterpret it for a plate."
Thirty-four great cooks and starred chefs played the game. From these meetings was born an art book
Art Sens
published by Balzac, with a preface by Guillaume Gomez who directed the kitchens of the Élysée for a quarter of a century.
We leaf through the book with relish.
Sylvie makes us relive with passion anecdotes with Nicolas Salle, Gilles Goujon or Anne-Sophie Pic who, in legend, explains her work.
“For me, this dish echoes the work
Mirror of Fire
in the sense that we want to create something unique and emotionally charged.
Bringing liveliness, relief and breaking linearity seems to me to be an objective that brings us together”,
comments the chef.
With Sylvie, hours are like minutes.
Leaving
La Mascotte
, one of her favorite addresses on the heights of Montmartre, the one who is also the Minister of Oenology of the Republic of Montmartre greets a passer-by, familiarizes a shopkeeper, blows a kiss to another.
She vibrates.
Her smile lights up the greyness of this winter afternoon...
