The imaginary world of Jean-Michel Folon

 

Jean-Michel Folon, Untitled, Fondation Folon ©Fondation Folon, ADAGP/PARIS, 2024-2025

The imaginary world of Jean-Michel Folon

Ecology, war, space, and social culture in art

16 AUGUST 2024, 

ALMA REYES

 

I have always wanted to fly freely, to talk to the wind and the sky.

(Jean-Michel Folon), (“FOLON: Agency of Imaginary Journeys,” Tokyo Station Gallery)

Meta’s digital censorship targets art from the Leopold Museum in Vienna

'Self-Portrait with Model' by Christian Schad, from 1927, one of the works blocked by Meta.CHRISTIAN-SCHAD-STIFTUNG ASCHAFFENBURG/BILDRECHT

Meta’s digital censorship targets art from the Leopold Museum in Vienna

According to the prestigious institution, the works of established artists such as Egon Schiele and Christian Schad have been blocked by Instagram and Facebook

David Granda
Vienna, 15 July 2024

In 2021, museums in Vienna launched a witty campaign to protest the censorship of art on social media: they opened an account on OnlyFans, a platform that monetizes pornographic content. That year, a short video featuring the 1914 painting Liebespaar by Koloman Moser — made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Leopold Museum — was rejected by Facebook and Instagram as “potentially pornographic.” Three years later, the Leopold Museum in Vienna has launched a new campaign against Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook. This time it goes straight to the point: “Do you think this work of art should be censored?” it asks in a social media post featuring works by Egon Schiele and Christian Schad. “Meta does!”

Jane Rosenberg / Sketch artist of the condemned: ‘We love to see the rich and famous fall’

 

Jane Rosenberg, courtroom artist.© JEFFERSON SIEGEL

Jane Rosenberg, sketch artist of the condemned: ‘We love to see the rich and famous fall’ 

With more than four decades of experience, she has published a retrospective of the legal cases that have marked American society: from Donald Trump to ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán

Beyoncé She runs her world

In the opening image, Beyoncé wears a black cashmere jumper and white cotton and nylon floral print ball skirt, both by DIOR. Here, she is wearing an orange cashmere jumper by CÉLINE.

Beyoncé

She runs her world

Text by Paul Flynn
Portraits by Alasdair McLellan
Styling by Jonathan Kaye

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Issue n° 7, Spring & Summer 2013

Everyone knows Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, the incandescent megastar with the mesmeric voice, dazzling dance moves and stage costumes that resemble miniature suits of sparkly armour. But beyond the rump-shaking entertainer, there’s an elegant, reflective 31-year-old who’s also a recent mother and a no-nonsense businesswoman. 

Adele in The Gentlewoman

 

Adele

Text by Jude Rogers
Portraits by Alasdair McLellan
Styling by Jonathan Kaye

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Issue n° 3, Spring & Summer 2011

2011 saw a perfect start for Adele Adkins, a British singer with incredible international appeal. When her second album was released in January, it went straight to the top of the iTunes charts in 16 countries. Meanwhile, her debut album returned to the top 10. Born in north London into a clan of strong women, Adele grafts hard over her songs, which are based on her own experiences – in the case of this particular album, a crushing break-up. The events behind her lyrics still sting, and you hear it as soon as she starts to sing. Adele is a legitimate heiress to the great tradition of amazing torch singers. She’s also an adorable, down-to-earth girl.

Yoko Ono in The Gentlewoman

 

Yoko Ono

Text by Liz Hoggard
Portraits by Willy Vanderperre
Styling by Olivier Rizzo

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Issue n° 2, Autumn & Winter 2010

The passage of time has been miraculously beneficial for Yoko Ono. While previous generations held grudges and questioned her motives, in the 21st century Ono is cherished for her provocations and wisdom. As a musician and multimedia artist since before the term was coined, Ono holds the rare position of courting a global audience without ever having to compromise her work, which is often wilfully impenetrable. 

Björk in The Gentlewoman

 

Björk

Text by Vanessa Grigoriadis
Portraits by Alasdair McLellan
Styling by Jonathan Kaye

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Issue n° 11, Spring & Summer 2015

Björk Guðmundsdóttir’s always been full of surprises — musically, visually, even romantically (she dated Tricky and Goldie). At 49, she’s still on the road to revelation. Her gorgeous new album, leaked in January, drips with pain and self-investigation following her recent heart-breaking uncoupling, while a major exhibition opening at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in March promises to blow our socks off with more-than-state-of-the-art sonic installations and galleries filled with glittering ideas.

Cindy Sherman / The great American artist

 

Look Three
Cindy is wearing a vintage khaki cotton shirt from Search & Destroy. The vintage studded leather vest is by Schott, from Southpaw Vintage.

Cindy
Sherman

The great American artist

Text by Heidi Julavits

Portraits by Inez & Vinoodh

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Issue nº 19, Spring & Summer 2019

For almost 50 years, Cindy Sherman has been plundering her dressing-up box to turn herself into ingénues and society matrons, pin-ups and clowns – grotesquely familiar versions of the masks we all wear to face the world. She does this alone in her Hudson Square studio, surrounded only by the props – fake boobs, wigs, bits of mannequins – that help her create iconic images that contain not an ounce of Cindy Sherman. 

JORDAN PETTITT/PA WIRE

Hero passerby who tried to stop Peckham Banksy theft says he was kicked and phone lobbed during 'tetchy' confrontation

Tom Kellow had gone to admire the artwork on Rye Road on his lunch break

HANNAH ROBERTS9 August 2024

A man who tried to stop three masked thieves from removing a Banksy artwork in Peckham says he was kicked in the side and had his phone thrown during the “tetchy” confrontation.

Banksy unveils rhino as latest work in animal artwork series

 

Banksy unveils rhino as latest work in animal artwork series

TOM DAVIDSON12 august 2024

Banksy has unveiled his latest work - a rhinosprayed onto a wall in Charlton. 

The elusive street artist confirmed he was behind the piece by posting a photo on Instagram on Monday.

Banksy reveals new London artwork of goat perched on a wall

 

Banksy reveals new London artwork of goat perched on a wall

It is thought the artwork is based near Kew Bridge in Richmond

CASEY COOPER-FISKE6 august 2024

Banksy has revealed a new London artwork featuring a goat perched on top of a wall.

The street artist, whose identity is not known, posted the new piece featuring the goat silhouette with rocks falling down below it and a CCTV camera pointed at it, on Instagram this afternoon.

Istvan Orosz / Hungarian graphic artist

 

Istvan Orosz

(1951)

Hungarian graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer, and animated film maker. He was trained as a graphic designer at the University of Arts and Design in Budapest. After graduation in 1975 he began to deal with theatre as a stage designer and animated film. Later when poster came to the center of his interest also made mainly theatre, movie and exhibition posters.

His individual graphic works of art are often related to postmodernism by archaic forms, art historical references, stylistic quotations and playful self-reflection. Themes of the natural sciences, especially of geometry and optics appear in most of his works. He is also concerned with the theories of vision and sight such as the way the beholder’s hypothetical expectations influence the visual and empirical perception of spatial constructions. He is likely to experiment with the extremes, paradoxes of the representation of the perspective to create the illusion of space.

Orosz is a regular participant in international art exhibitions, poster biennials, symposiums and filmfestivals. Film director at the Pannonia Film Studio in Budapest, professor at University of West Hungary in Sopron, co-founder of D.O.P.P. designer society, and Hungarian Poster Association. He was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Letters.

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