Biography

Passionate by fine art in his younger age, Fritz Junior Jacquet is a real self-taught man of folding,that title confers great prestige on him and his unique style distinguish from other Origami masters.

The brand name JFJ (signature of the artist) built with the wire of time and the result of different univers in which Junior evolved, starting in his native Haiti where he spend the first seven years of his life.

As a newcomers in France with his two sisters to joint their parents, the child of the old Bours d'Aquin (Haiti) discover a new culture that he made his through years. It in his country of adoption, particularly in Paris, he continues his training in folding.

As a teenager, he took a beginer class of folding at the public library. That experience aware him of his facility in visuel art that he used to practice before with one technic dictated by his teachers.

It will be a revelation which will lead him to meet Vincent FLODERER, his mentor, an experienced paperfolder, who help his evolution and with whom he create the - international research center of Modeling by the Fold - "Centre de Recherche Internationale de Modélisation par le Pli (CRIMP)". That collaboration help him move on toward the demostration of his skills. Because of that relationship, he acquire a critical glance as well as a rigour in his creation : an essential key for all artist advancement.

Since the chrysalis the origami left its cocoon and took its take-off. From now on recognized by its pars, Junior participate every year at the MASTER OF ORIGAMI, the most prestigious international meeting of origami. This recognition is also translated by the exposition of several JFJ works in the two largest sanctuaries of folding in the world : the Origami Galery (Japon, Tokyo) and the Mingei international Museum (San Diego, USA).