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JEAN MICHEL FOLON (Bruxelles 1934 - Montecarlo 2005)    

He was born in Bruxelles in 1934. When he was 20, he stops his studies of architecture and he moves to Paris, where he starts to make his little men roaming in his sheets, about both crowded cities and desert places. And he starts to lie down the colors shading them first into the blue and then into the Yellow and red. In the 60's he publishes illustrations and covers for magazines both in USA and in Europe: "Time", "Fortune", "Graphis", "The New Yorker", "L'Express", "Le Nouvel Observateur"; then he starts to design publicity posters, for example for Olivetti, and to expose his works in galleries and museums in Europe and all over the world. Since the 70's he often meets literature, illustrating La Metamorfosi of Kafka, Alcohols and Calligramme of Apollinaire, all Prévert, then Boris Vian, Guy d eMaupassant, Albert Camus, but also Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury and The invisible man of H.G.Wells. His relation with literature is very close, special with fantastic and lyric fiction. While he goes on in exposing in the most important places in the world, he likes apply his visionariety to the comunication: a lot of posters relies on his unmistakable line, specially for human, benefic, cultural, animalist or ecologic enterprises. Unforgettable is his campaign for Snam, that goes with a impressive animated film. He sails like a nomad in the streets of the world between etchings and water-colours, and he's everywhere and nowhere. After a long illness, died in Montecarlo in October 2005.

   

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