FOLON

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 an
d 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 Cesar, 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 an
d multiple patinas, Folon''s sculptures drew their inspiration from traditional arts (arts premiers), ranging from the Cyclades to the Etruscans and from African masks to Indian totems. Predominantly centered on the human, these sculptures embody the
mes that the artist had treated graphically, thus projecting his universe into natural and moving environments.

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