Jean-Michel Folon

Jean-Michel Folon is a Belgian artist Walloon it is not Wallon if it were born in Brussels, cf discussion in Portail Wallonia -->. Born on March 1st 1934 with Uccle and died the October 20th 2005 in age the 71 years with Monaco of the continuations of a Leukemia. He worked on many materials and created in various forms: tapestry, paintings, postage stamps, stage sets, etc

Of an initial training of Architect, it gives up his studies at the Saint-Luc School in the middle of the years 1960 and settles with Paris. It is distinguished soon in the field from the illustration by a style (assuming a certain filiation with Saul Steinberg) characterized by broad ranges with the watercolour and the recurring use characters with voluntarily diagrammatic contour. Their mislaid expression, their wandering in weightlessness in vast landscapes stripped or on the contrary in oppressive and enigmatic urban spaces, perfectly in phase with the interrogations of the Western company of after May 68 undoubtedly constitute the best aspect of its work.

Its detractors tax it with insipidness, see at his place a drawing with the elementary style and especially the constant re-use of the receipts having ensured its business success. It takes part in first film of Maurice Dugowson Lily likes to me , a film of buddies, excellent comedy in which it plays the first parts with dimensions of Patrick Dewaere and Rufus. Attracted by the trade of actor, it abandoned the cinema following a reflection of Gerard Depardieu which sees it more as one creator of universe that as an interpreter.

He creates, in collaboration with the type-setter Michel Colombier, the credits opening and closing of Antenne 2, diffused between 1975 and 1984, where its catches into impermeable fly away on very a melancholic person Cantilène for oboe and orchestra. It is probably its work for the most known television.

1989 mark its philatelic success and public in France: it conceives the logo of the philatelic international exhibition of Paris Philexfrance 89 and the logo of the “birds” which were the symbol of the commemoration of the French revolution on many stamps and commemorative objects in the world.

Jean-Michel Folon is also a burning defender of the human rights, he has in particular magazine various campaigns for international Amnesty.

The artist has his own museum, the “Folon Foundation”. This one is located in the park of the Domaine Solvay at Hulpe. In the Farm of the Castle of Hulpe, fifteen showrooms make it possible to the visitor to discover more than three hundred works of the artist (watercolours, paintings, sculptures, engravings, objects, posters and illustrations).

List works

Decoration of the station Montgomery of the Subway of Brussels.
a tapestry woven with Aubusson and exposed to the center of the congresses of Monaco.
the Birds , bicentenary of the French revolution, telephone Chart of France Telecom, 50 units, January 1989 (?).
Somebody , statue located in the gardens of the Élysette (side Meuse), seat of the Presidency of the Walloon Government with Jambes (Namur).

Philately

Philexfrance 82 : La Poste and the men and La Poste and the techniques , stamps of France, 1982.
Logo of Philexfrance 89.
the Birds , bicentenary of the French revolution, French stamp, January 1989.
Europa Series, four stamps in two Diptych S British, 1991.
Ves Plays paralympic of Tignes , French stamp, 1992 (taking again the topic of the birds).
50e birthday of the Universal declaration of the Human rights , stamps of the postal Administration of the United Nations (offices of New York, Geneva and Vienna), 1998.
50° anniversario beyond dichiarazione universale deidiritti LED' uomo , stamp of Italy, 1998, taken again of one of the reasons for the stamps of UNO (topic of the birds).
European Elections of June 1999 , stamp of France, 1999.

External bond

Site of the Foundation Folon
Site of Jean-Michel Folon
To view the credits of Antenna 2

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