Jacques de la Villeglé

The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has qualified him as one of the most outstanding exponents of liquid art, in his work Liquid Life, together with Herman Braun-Vega and Manolo Valdés.

Jacques de la Villeglé studied at School of Fine Arts of Rennes and Nantes School of Art. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is Lettrism, jewelry and jewelry design. Yves Klein is recorded as an influence. Work by Jacques de la Villeglé is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Tate, Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

• Name — Jacques Villeglé • Birth Name — Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé • Birthplace — Quimper, France • Place of death — France • Known for — Lettrism • Movement — New Realism • Illustration — Jacques Villeglé Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (27 March 1926 – 6 June 2022) was a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters. He was a member of the Nouveau Réalisme art group (1960–1970). His work is primarily focused on the anonymous and on the marginal remains of civilization. The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has qualified him as one of the most outstanding exponents of liquid art, in his work Liquid Life, together with Herman Braun-Vega and Manolo Valdés.

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.

He built 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.

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.

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.

Jacques de la Villeglé was recorded at birth as Jacques Marie Bertrand Mahé de La Villeglé. He also worked under the name Villegle. The authorities additionally record the headings Jacques de La Villeglé, Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, Villeglé, Villegle and Jacques Villegle. His recorded language was French.

Jacques de la Villeglé is recorded as painter, artist, draftsperson, collagist and jewelry designer.