01.03 › 31.05.2024
Sculptures walk
Brussels city centre.
The event ended on 31 May 2024.
A walk around Brussels featuring Folon’s finest sculptures
From 1 March to 31 May, a walking route featuring Folon’s most beautiful sculptures – around 20 in total – will be set out in the centre of Brussels. An outdoor exhibition in the Belgian capital’s iconic locations: Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, Mont des Arts, place Royale and the square du Petit Sablon.
Open to all.
“I got into sculpture at the end of 1989, during the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where I went to draw on its weekly closing day. There was a small Cycladic sculpture that I liked. I gazed at it for the four months of the exhibition. When I got back to Burcy, I picked up a knife in the kitchen. And in the remains of a broom handle, I began to carve a body, I didn’t know how to create the head, I sculpted a bird’s head looking upwards. Since then, I’ve forgotten everything. (…)” Jean-Michel Folon, Lettre to Pierre Alechinsky, late May 1995.
In partnership with the Ville de Bruxelles, the Régie des Bâtiments, Urban, Bruxelles-Environnement and the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert.
