Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon was born in 1934 in Uccle, near Brussels. Despite his architectural studies, he very quickly devoted himself to drawing. He participates, with his illustrations in magazines and other periodicals: he will be defined for a long time as a humorous illustrator. Very soon he created a world of his own in which an anonymous character seems to float or slide into an indefinite, sometimes absurd world.
Through the use of color, his work takes a more pictorial path towards the end of the 1960s. Numerous galleries take possession of this graphic phenomenon where a certain nostalgia is accompanied by criticism of society, which animates the artist.
Folon's art of subtle charo-darks becomes familiar. The public often identifies with this man lost in this world of concrete, among these arrows with a thousand contradictory directions, a man manipulated, alienated, anonymous.
Jean-Michel Folon died in Monaco in 2005.
