Published by Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2020
ISBN 10: 8882714497 ISBN 13: 9788882714499
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Published by Edizioni Musei Vaticani Fondation Folon, 2020
ISBN 10: 8882714497 ISBN 13: 9788882714499
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: New. Number of pages: 160 Size: 19,5 x 26,5 cm Illustrations: 104 b/w and colour + 18 micro-images b/w and colour. This catalogue is the result of the cooperation between the Folon Foundation and the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Vatican Museums. It is related to the eponymous exhibition set up in the Vatican Museums for the year 2020, but because of the pandemic delayed to 2022 representing a selection of works on paper of the well-known Belgian illustrator, painter and sculptor. The catalogue reproduces a selection of about eighty works from the vast and successful artistic production that Folon began in the 1960s, consisting of watercolours, collages, drawings in coloured ink, Indian ink, pen and marker pen, and two sculptures. This nucleus is entirely dedicated to the artist's civil and social commitment to the most diverse causes, from ecology to human rights, from marginalisation to isolation, from the condemnation of every war to the affirmation of freedom of thought and expression. Folon is a confirmation of a peculiar continuing attention to the sacred, as evidenced by the series entitled About the Creation (1989-1990), which the artist dedicated to the Book of Genesis and which, unlike the other works shown, will remain in the Vatican collections after the exhibition.