Jean-Michel Folon
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Jean-Michel Folon (18 March 1934 – 20 October 2005) was a Belgian artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor.
Early life
Folon was born in 1934 in Uccle, Belgium. At Institut Saint-Luc, he studied architecture.
Personal life
Folon landed in Paris's outskirts in 1955. He migrated to Monaco in 1985.
Milton Glaser recalls an incident in the 1970s with Folon: "A group of us were driving at dusk from Paris to Folon's house in Burcy." Jean-Michel announced that we were going to have rabbit for dinner as we passed through the forest of Fountainbleau. "I can't eat rabbit, I have a rabbit at home," my wife, Shireley, remarked, referring to Mr. Hoffman, our dwarf albino. "O.K., then we can have some good cheese," Jean-Michel paused for a moment. . ... If you have a cheese at home," says the author.
Career
In 1969 at the Lefebre Gallery in New York, his first exhibition of his watercolors was in Lefebre Gallery in New York. He appeared in Tokyo and in Milan's Il Milione gallery one year later. He appeared at the XVth Venice Biennale in the United States. In 1973, he was selected from a group of Belgian artists in the XXVth So Paulo Biennale, where he was given the Grand Prize in Painting. Over the years, his focus remained on specific techniques, including watercolor, etching, silkscreen, charts, mosaics, and stained glass, which displayed the breadth of his art. Ein Baum stirbt - Un albero muore, 1974 - is by Museo Cantonale d'Arte de Lugano. He has also produced numerous posters, many for humanitarian causes. He made his first wooden sculptures around 1988. Since beginning to paint, he moved on to creating sculptures in clay, plaster, bronze, and marble.
Several museums have dedicated exhibits to him, including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Rotterdam in 1971, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, 1981, the Musée des Decorative Arts in Barcelona in 1985, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Madrid in 1990, La Pedrera in Barcelona, 1990, the Musée de Buenos Aires, 1996, and the Museo Morandi in Bologna in 1996-1997. In 1999, a large sculpture by Galerie Guy Pieters, in Saint-Paul de Vence, was on display. He founded Fondation Folon in 2000, which presents the essentials of his work in the area where he grew up in. In 2001, Lisbon, Portugal's capital, hosted a major retrospective of his sculptures in the Castelo de So Jorge, which dominates the city. He created the layouts for Puccini's La Bohème in Italy in 2003. In the Palais d'Elysée, the president of France, Jacques Chirac, gave him the Legion of Honour. He became a UNICEF ambassador in 2004. In 2005, Florence's city held a grand retrospective of his time at Palazzo Vecchio and the Forte di Belvedere.
Folon began drawing in newspapers, majority in the United States, where he was discovered earlier in Europe and illustrated books by Franz Kafka, Ray Bradbury, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Prévert, Guy de Maupassant, Herbert George Wells, George Wells, Jean de La Fontaine, and Romain Gary. He never changed his style, although his most notable feature is the "bird-man"), posters for theater and opera (Magic City, 1974; Waterloo Station, 1975), and television (Sketheltville, 1989), sculptures (El mer, Ce grand sculpteur, Knokke, 1999), and cinema (Hennio, 1990).
Several exhibitions curated in the world's best galleries and museums (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1972; Arts Club of Chicago, 1972; Transworld Art, 1971; La Pedrera, Madrid, 1996; Olympic Museum, Lausanne, 1996).
"I'm grateful to Giorgio Soavi for releasing his first posters, which were intended for Olivetti in Milan." Soavi has told me, "I invent things that were out of the ordinary for me." One wonders if he is not the true author of the creations that he has hence encouraged" because of his attitude.
Soavi was also responsible for the 1975 book Lettres a Giorgio, which reproduces 40 envelopes, each an original watercolor sent to Soavi—most to his Milan home—and delivered by various international addresses. "We create in our imaginations a monument to the unknown postmen to thank them all for allowing these images to reach their destination," Folon says in a short Afterword.
Folon established a foundation in Solvay Castle, La Hulpe, in the 1990s. Fabio Mochi curated Jean-Michel Folon's exhibition in Florence in 2005, which six years later led to the creation of the permanent Folon exhibition in the Giardino delle Rose (Rose Garden) in Florence. A commercial for SNAM featuring methane is another piece of television that has been recalled and treasured. Michel Colombier's soundtrack is Dolorosa.