Jacques Villeglé
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Jacques Villeglé (1926 – 2022) was a French artist known for such works as Ach Alma Manetro (1949).
He worked in mixed media and was an affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and décollage 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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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
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
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
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.
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