Folon
Subtitle: the sculptures
By: edited by Stéphanie Angelroch and Isabelle Douillet-de Pange; authors Stéphanie Angelroch, Isabelle Douillet-de Pange, Jean-Michel Folon [and 3 others]
Contributors: Angelroch, Stéphanie, author, editor; Douillet-de Pange, Isabelle, author, editor; Abbaye de Villers (Villers-la-Ville, Belgium)
Publisher: Mercatorfonds
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Brussel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9789462302730
Subjects: Belgian Sculpture; Human figure in art; Belgian Figure sculpture; Bronze sculpture
Work titles: Works
Description: With his posters, illustrations, television animations and his many exhibitions the world over, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005) marked the global imaginary during the last third of the 20th century. He was a humanist who left behind him a figurative and poetic body of that, anchored in traditional techniques, were quite atypical in the artistic landscape of his era. Sculpture knocked like a challenge that Folon threw himself into headlong in the second part of his career. Throughout the 1990s, encouraged by the sculptor César, Folon focused on statuary, working both with direct carving and modelling, which he then translated to bronze or stone. Characterized by their frontality and corporality, which he sometimes enhanced with pigments and multiple patinas, Folon's sculptures drew their inspiration from traditional arts (arts premièrs), ranging from the Cyclades to the Etruscans and from African masks to Indian totems. Predominantly centered on the human, these sculptures embody themes that the artist had treated graphically, thus projecting his universe into natural and moving environments. Exhibition: L'Abbaye de Villers la Ville, Belgium (opening 15.10.2020)
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Abbaye de Villers la Ville, Belgium, opening October 15, 2020

Includes bibliographical references (page 205)