Jacques Villeglé
Jacques Villeglé | |
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Born | Jacques Villeglé 27 March 1926 (age 95) |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Lettrism |
Movement | New Realism |
Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (born 27 March 1926, Quimper, Brittany) is a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters.
He is a member of the Nouveau Réalisme art group (1960–1970).
His work has primarily focused on the anonymous and on the marginal remains of civilization.
Biography[]
Villeglé first started producing art in 1947 in Saint-Malo by collecting found objects (steel wires, bricks from Saint-Malo's Atlantic retaining wall). In December 1949, he concentrated his work on ripped advertising posters from the street. Working with fellow artist Raymond Hains, Villeglé began to use collage and found/ripped posters from street advertisements in creating Ultra-Lettrist psychogeographical hypergraphics in the 1950s, and in June 1953, he published Hepérile Éclaté, a phonetic poem by Camille Bryen, which was made unreadable when read through strips of grooved glass made by Hains.
Posters[]
He builds posters in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath
Ultra-lettrist[]
In February 1954, Villeglé and Hains met the Lettrism poet François Dufrêne, and this latter introduced them to Yves Klein, Pierre Restany and Jean Tinguely.
Nouveau réalisme[]
In 1958, Villeglé published an overview of his work on ripped posters, Des Réalités collectives, which is to a certain degree a prefiguration of the manifesto of the New Realism group (1960) which he joined at its inception.
Bibliography[]
- Poesie der Großstadt. Die Affichisten. Bernard Blistène, Fritz Emslander, Esther Schlicht, Didier Semin, Dominique Stella. Snoeck, Köln 2014, ISBN 978-3-9523990-8-8
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- Studio of Jacques Villeglé by Marion Chanson
- A tribute to Villeglé with photos from Padova exhibition 2012 by Alain Chivilò
- Centre Pompidou, Paris Press release: Jacques Villeglé 2008
- Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper
- (in French) Jacques Villeglé
- Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Hanover (German)
- 1926 births
- Living people
- People from Quimper
- French mixed-media artists
- French poster artists
- Nouveau réalisme artists
- French contemporary artists