Jacques de la 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.
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- Name
- Jacques Villeglé
- Birth Name
- Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé
- Birthplace
- Quimper, France
- Place of death
- France
- Known for
- Lettrism
- Movement
- New Realism
- Full name
- Jacques Marie Bertrand Mahé de La Villeglé.
- Born
- 1926 · Quimper.
- Died
- 2022 · Paris.
- Occupation
- painter · artist · draftsperson · collagist · jewelry designer
- Fields
- Lettrism · jewelry · jewelry design
- Movements
- Nouveau réalisme
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Biography
Biography
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.
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Jacques de la Villeglé was a collagist, painter, sculptor and graphic artist, born on 27 March 1926 and died on 6 June 2022 in Paris, France. Jacques de la Villeglé was born in Quimper, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Quimper (Finistère). The death is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Jacques Villeglé à la Galerie G.-Ph. N. Vallois à Paris.
photograph by François Poivret, background work by Jacques Villeglé. · François Poivret (photography), Jacques Villeglé (background work). · Email from J. Villeglé
Key facts
Key facts
• 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
Biography
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
Posters
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.
Ultra-lettrist
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
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.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
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.
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Identity
Jacques de la Villeglé is recorded as painter, artist, draftsperson, collagist and jewelry designer.
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Life and career
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1926
Jacques de la Villeglé born at Quimper.
2022
Jacques de la Villeglé died at Paris.
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Quimper.
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- 1.Photographie de François Poivret.
- 2.Pierre-Marie Dioudonnat, Le Simili-Nobiliaire-Français, éd. Sedopols, 2012, .
- 3.Henri de La Messelière, Filiations Bretonnes, Prudhomme, Saint-Brieuc, 1914, , .
- 4.Jacques Villeglé. mediation.centrepompidou.fr.
- 5.Paris Saint Brieuc. Centre Pompidou.
- 6.Sur musee.ville.morlaix.fr.
- 7.Jacques Villeglé. mediation.centrepompidou.fr.
- 8.Voir sur lepoint.fr.
- 9.Sur lavoixdunord.fr.
- 10.Google Livres 67BIAQAAIAAJ Jacques Villeglé: œuvres, écrits, entretiens 1957%20chez%20Colette%20Allendy .
- 11.800signes.com.
- 12.Sur fiac.com.
- 13.Jacques Villeglé, affichiste et chroniqueur de la France contemporaine, est mort. Le Monde.fr. 2022-06-07.
- 14.Valérie Oddos. L'artiste Jacques Villeglé, célèbre pour son travail sur les affiches lacérées, est mort à 96 ans. France Télévisions. 07/06/2022.
- 15.« Jacques Villeglé, figure de l’art contemporain né à Quimper, est décédé », sur ouest-france.fr.
- 16.Sur centrepompidou.fr.
- 17.Jacques Villeglé, œuvres, écrits, entretiens. Hazan. 2008.
- 18.Article français anglais auteur1=Jean-Marc Huitorel Jacques Villeglé Art Press octobre 2006 lire en pages=84-85 .
- 19.Jacques Villeglé, catalogue raisonné : CD-Rom rétrospectif de l’œuvre de l’artiste Jacques Villeglé, 2003. Production : UR/Unlimited Responsibility.
- 20.Cheminements. 1943-1959. Jean-Pierre Huguet, coll. « Les Sept Collines ». 1999.
- 21.Jacques Villeglé. « Images » - Affiches lacérées 1958-1991. galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois. 2001.
- 22.François Poivret, Jacques Villeglé. Filigranes Éditions. 2013.
- 23.Google Livres GEhLAAAAYAAJ Lacéré Anonyme traditionnel .
- 24.Joan. Monnier. La géographie de Jacques Villeglé. Travaux de l'Institut de Géographie de Reims. 33. 129. 2007. 10.3406/tigr.2007.1532. 2022-06-07. 57–63.
- 25.Sur musee-lam.fr.
- 26.Vreemde wereld, Zygmunt Bauman over samenleven in vloeibare tijden. ASP. 2018. 9 789057 187551.
- 27."Saint-Malo. Là où tout a commencé." - Centre Cristel éditeur d'art. centre-cristel-editeur-art.com.
- 28.Lumière noire, 2019 par Jacques Villeglé. Artsper.
- 29.L’Éclatement des célestins, couverture de la revue Nature en 2008.
- 30.Sur lemonde.fr.
- 31.Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres - été 2019.
- 32.Jacques Villeglé. La comédie urbaine. Centre Pompidou. 2008.
- 33.Jacques Villeglé. « La comédie urbaine » au Centre Pompidou : le parcours de l'exposition.
- 34.Expositions depuis 1987 MAMC, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole. mamc.saint-etienne.fr.
- 35.Voir sur artsy.net.
- 36.Jacques Villeglé. Le Quartier.
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Formation and teaching. Villeglé studied at School of Fine Arts of Rennes and Nantes School of Art. His recorded influences include Yves Klein. Villeglé worked in Lettrism, jewelry and jewelry design. His work is associated with Nouveau réalisme. He belonged to Nouveau réalisme. Villeglé received Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Tate, Museum of Modern Art and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
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