Jacques Villeglé

A member of the New Realists and a friend of Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé (1926-2022), a pioneer of urban art, has been recognized mainly as a "collector" of posters taken down from the walls, torn up and reorganized in order to appropriate these "reflections of the dominant culture" and to make typographic components emerge that had become abstract.

(external link : www.villegle.fr)

STAR

2024

bilingual edition (English / French)

Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs

Vallois

Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.

Le lacéré anonyme

2008

French edition

Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback

An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...