Jacques de la Villeglé

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Jacques de la Villeglé (2016), photo: François Poivret.

Jacques de la 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 Nouveau Réalisme .

life and work

Jacques de la Villeglé studied art and architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes from 1944 to 1946 and architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Nantes from 1947 to 1949 . In 1947 he began collecting objets trouvés in Saint-Malo - initially what had been left over from the war, pieces of steel, remnants of the Atlantic Wall, which he put together into sculptures . Together with his friend Raymond Hains, whom he had met during his studies in Rennes, from December 1949 in Paris he concentrated on torn posters, which they removed from walls and redesigned into new works on canvas. They worked together until 1954. The first joint work was Alma Manetro ; the title was derived from the word fragments that could be read on the outline. Her works gave rise to the term décollage . The friends referred to themselves as "affichistes" (tear-off posters ) , their works as "affiches lacérées" (torn posters ).

In February 1954, Villeglé and Hains met the lettrist writer François Dufrêne , who introduced them to Yves Klein , Jean Tinguely and the art critic Pierre Restany . Between 1950 and 1954, Villeglé and Hains worked on the color film Pénélope , experimenting with single, double and triple fluted lenses to reorganize images according to their dominant colors and lines. As a result, experiments arose with deformed lenses, which applied to the normal typography of letters, distorted them and led to the idea of ​​the ultimate alphabet that defied pronunciation. This new alphabet was used in the publication Hépérile éclaté from 1953, in which a poem by Camille Bryen was extrapolated . In 1956, Villeglé married Marie-Françoise de Faultrier and the couple have three daughters.

Alphabet onomastique
Jacques de la Villeglé , 2005
Serigraphy
76 × 56 cm
Edition of 80 copies

Link to the picture
(please note copyrights )

In 1958, Villeglé published an overview of his torn posters, Des Réalités collectives , which in some ways formed a forerunner of the manifesto of the Nouveau Réalisme group, which he joined on October 27, 1960, like Hains and Dufrêne as a founding member in Paris. Villeglé and Hains had anticipated their aesthetic principles: art of everyday life and chance, avoidance of technology and craft, humor. Villeglé is interested in an anonymous art of the street. A revaluation took place: the torn and broken, which would soon have been removed by the city cleaning service, is saved by this “poster tear-off”.

Jacques de la Villeglé, 1995

From 1969, Villeglé began to create graphic works in which he processed his “socio-political alphabet”, an alphabet made of modified letters. Examples of the letters in his alphabet are the anarchist circled “A”, the “E” from Tschachotin's three arrows and the “G”, which consists of a hammer, sickle and a star.

In 1971, the art historian and museum director Pontus Hultén opened the first retrospective of his works at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm .

Villeglé worked as an author in the book La traversée Urbi & Orbi , published in 2006 . In it he gathers essays on his art and deals with Marcel Duchamp's readymades , among other things . He also deals with earlier well-known artists such as the surrealist Léo Malet and the Dadaist Johannes Baader .

Jacques de la Villeglé lives in Paris and Saint-Malo.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1957: Galerie Colette Alendy, Paris
  • 1962: New Realists , Neue Galerie im Künstler Haus, Munich
  • 1963: Pierre Restany presenta Dufrène, Hains, Rotella, Villeglé , Galleria Schwarz, Milan
  • 1971: Dufrêne, Hains, Rotella, Villeglé, Vostell: poster demolitions from the Cremer collection , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • 1971–1972: Villeglé Retrospective 1949–1971 , Moderna Museet , Stockholm ; Museum Haus Lange , Krefeld
  • 1977: Paris - New York , Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
  • 1986: Forty Years of Modern Art 1945–1985 , Tate Gallery , London
  • 2006: Jacques Villeglé , Le Quartier, Center d'art contemporain de Quimper
  • 2007: Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé - A poster tear off from Paris , Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation, Hanover (in collaboration with the Sprengel Museum )
  • 2008: Jacques Villeglé, retrospective , Center Georges Pompidou, Paris

Works (selection)

  • 1959: Les Triples de Maillot , tear-off poster, paper on canvas, 117 × 224 cm, Museum of Modern Art , Vienna
  • 1962: 158 rue de Tolbiac (October 26, 1962 ) , tear-off poster, paper on canvas, 330 × 260 cm, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
  • 1965: Untitled , tear-off poster, paper on wooden panel, 50 × 21.7 cm, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

literature

  • François Bon , Nicolas Bourriaud, Kaira Marie Cabañas: Jacques Villeglé . Flammarion, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-08-030554-1
  • Hannelore Kersting (arrangement): Contemporary art. 1960 to 2007 . Municipal Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, 2007, ISBN 978-3-924039-55-4
  • Thomas Krens (preface): Rendezvous. Masterpieces from the Center Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums . Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York 1998, ISBN 0-89207-213-X
  • Uwe M. Schneede : The history of art in the 20th century: from the avant-garde to the present , CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48197-3 , p. 204 f.
  • Jacques Villeglé: Urbi & Orbi. On the art of tearing posters , Nautilus, Hamburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89401-559-6
  • Big city poetry. The Affichists . Bernard Blistène, Fritz Emslander, Esther Schlicht, Didier Semin, Dominique Stella. Snoeck publishing house. 2014. ISBN 978-3-9523990-8-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation
  2. PW Hartmann: The great art dictionary
  3. Thomas Krens (preface): Rendezvous. Masterpieces from the Center Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums . Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York 1998, p. 701
  4. WM Drechsler: The real world of things . In: Society of Friends of the Museum of Modern Art (ed.): Museum of Modern Art. Art of the last 30 years , Vienna 1979, unpag.
  5. Uwe M. Schneede: The History of Art in the 20th Century (2001), p. 205
  6. Center Pompidou exhibits a Retrospective of the Work of Jacques Villeglé ( Memento from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Jacques Villeglé. kunstaspekte.de, accessed on December 13, 2009 .
  8. Internet site Center d'art contemporain de Quimper ( Memento of August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation website ( Memento from November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. Website of the Center Pompidou, Paris ( Memento of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)