Jacques Villeglé
Jacques Villeglé ( born March 27, 1926 in Quimper ), born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, also known as Jacques Villeglé, is a French artist and co-founder of the New Realism.
Life and work
Jacques Villeglé studied from 1944 to 1946 Art and Architecture at the École des Beaux -Arts in Rennes, 1947-1949 architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux -Arts in Nantes. In 1947 he began to collect in Saint -Malo objets trouvé - first what the war had left over, steel pieces, the remains of the Atlantic Wall, then he combined them into sculptures. Together with his friend Raymond Hains, whom he had met during his studies in Rennes, he concentrated from December 1949 in Paris on torn posters, which they removed from walls and remodeled to create new works on canvas. Their collaboration took place until 1954. The first collaboration was Oh Alma Manetro; the title was created after the word fragments that were read on the demolition. Their works were the trigger for the emergence of the concept of art Décollage. The friends called themselves " affichistes " ( Plakatabreißer ), her works as " affiches lacérées " ( torn posters).
In February 1954 Villeglé and Hains met the Lettrist writer François Dufrêne, who introduced her to Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely and the art critic Pierre Restany. Between 1950 and 1954 worked Villeglé and grove on the color film Penelope, where they experimented with single, double and triple fluted lenses to organize images according to their dominant colors and lines new. As a result, incurred experiments with deformed lenses applied to the normal typography of the letters, these distorted and led to the idea of an ultimate alphabet which defied the debate. This new alphabet was used in the publication Hépérile éclaté of 1953, in a poem by Camille Bryen was extrapolated. 1956 Villeglé married Marie- Françoise de Faultrier, the couple has three daughters.
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In 1958 published Villeglé an overview of his slashed posters, Des Réalités collectives, which in some ways a precursor of the Manifesto of the New Realism group was formed which he on October 27, 1960 as Hains and Dufrêne as a founding member in Paris joined. Villeglé and grove had anticipated the aesthetic principles: the art of everyday life and of chance, avoidance of technology and craftsmanship, humor. Villeglé interested in an anonymous street art. There was a re-evaluation: The Torn and Broken, which would soon have been eliminated by the Sanitation is rescued from this " Plakatabreißer ".
From 1969 Villeglé began to create graphic works in which he reworked his " socio - political alphabet ", an alphabet of modified letters. Examples of the letters in its alphabet are the anarchist circled "A", "E " from Tschachotin three arrows and the " G", which consists of hammer, sickle and a star.
Opened in 1971, the art historian and museum director Pontus Hultén, the first retrospective of his work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
In the book, published in 2006 La Urbi & Orbi traversée Villeglé be operated as an author. He gathered in his essays on art and deals with, among others, Marcel Duchamp's ready- mades. He also deals with previously known artists such as the Surrealists Léo Malet and the Dadaists Johannes Baader.
Jacques Villeglé lives in Paris and Saint- Malo.