Jean-michel Folon(1934 - 2005)"nuages"etching, Aquatint, Signed, Ed. 90/95, Dim: 29.5x 39 Cm

Jean-Michel Folon (1934 - 2005) "Nuages" Etching, aquatint, signed, Ed. 90/95, Dimensions: 29.5 x 39 cm
The Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon
was born in 1934 in Uccle, near Brussels. Although he
studied architecture, he very quickly turned his attention to
drawing. He contributed illustrations to magazines and other
periodicals; for many years he was regarded as a cartoonist.
Very early on, he created a world of his own in which an anonymous figure
seems to float or slip into an undefined, sometimes
absurd world. Through his use of colour, his work took a more
pictorial turn towards the end of the 1960s. In 1969, his first solo exhibition
was held in New York (Lefebre Gallery). Before long,
his artistic universe made its mark: covers of French and American newspapers,
posters, and television programme titles. Numerous galleries
embraced this graphic phenomenon, in which a certain nostalgia vied
with the social critique that drove the artist.
Folon’s art, with its subtle monochromatic tones, became familiar. The public
often identified with this man lost in a world of concrete, amidst these
arrows pointing in a thousand contradictory directions—a man manipulated, alienated,
anonymous.
In 1971, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris organised a major
exhibition (90 works) of his oeuvre. Italy, the United States and
Japan organised events dedicated to the artist. Folon produced a
large number of engravings, screen prints, watercolours,
book covers, illustrations and collages.