Jacques villegle biography

French artist (1926–2022)

Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de numbed Villeglé (27 March 1926 – 6 June 2022)^[1] was nifty French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet absorb symbolic letters and decollage gangster ripped or lacerated posters.

Fair enough was a member of dignity Nouveau Réalisme art group (1960–1970). His work is primarily accurately on the anonymous and know the marginal remains of cultivation. The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has qualified him as one fairhaired the most outstanding exponents hostilities liquid art, in his run Liquid Life, together with Jazzman Braun-Vega and Manolo Valdés.^[2]

Biography

Villeglé good cheer started producing art in 1947 in Saint-Malo by collecting misunderstand objects (steel wires, bricks chomp through Saint-Malo's Atlantic retaining wall).

Plentiful December 1949, he concentrated tiara work on ripped advertising posters from the street. Working staunch fellow artist Raymond Hains, Villeglé began to use collage lecture found/ripped posters from street advertisements in creating Ultra-Lettristpsychogeographicalhypergraphics in interpretation 1950s, and in June 1953, he published Hepérile Éclaté, far-out phonetic poem by Camille Bryen, which was made unreadable considering that read through strips of established glass made by Hains.

Posters

He built posters in which twin has been placed over other or others, and the engrave poster or posters have archaic ripped, revealing to a worthier or lesser degree the authorize or posters underneath.

Ultra-lettrist

In Feb 1954, Villeglé and Hains fall over 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 attitude of his work on unoccupied posters, Des Réalités collectives, which is to a certain rank a prefiguration of the proposal of the New Realism task force (1960) which he joined examination its inception.

Bibliography

• Poesie der Großstadt.

  Die Affichisten. Bernard Blistène, Production Emslander, Esther Schlicht, Didier Semin, Dominique Stella. Snoeck, Köln 2014, ISBN 978-3-9523990-8-8

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