Jacques VillegléFound objects, ripped posters, radical collages: as part of the New Realism movement of the early 1960s, Jacques Villeglé's work directly influenced his contemporaries, in particular, New York Pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. By using everyday objects, the New Realists sought new forms of artistic expression and called into question the role of the artist and the nature of art itself. Villeglé's work with posters that he found in the streets-some ripped by anonymous passers-by or decayed by the passage of time, and some even damaged to the point of illegibility-exhibited his desire to subvert the conventional discourse of advertising and political propaganda. Since the 1960s, Villeglé's work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and North America, and forms part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art, as well as many prestigious museums and galleries around the world. Villeglé was a featured artist in the 2006 exhibition "Nouveau Réalisme: Art and Reality in the 1960s" at Vienna's Museum of Modern Art. Jacques Villeglé is the first English-language book to represent this influential artist. Illustrating his career through a series of essays-a retrospective text, an interview, and over 150 images-the book spans the artist's output from his early work to his most recent projects. |
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Page 71
... means of the hypnagogoscope eventually led to Hains and Villeglé's collaborative experiment in the abstract film Pénélope ( 1949–54 ) , and was soon followed by their “ exploding ” the legible typography of Camille Bryen's short ...
... means of the hypnagogoscope eventually led to Hains and Villeglé's collaborative experiment in the abstract film Pénélope ( 1949–54 ) , and was soon followed by their “ exploding ” the legible typography of Camille Bryen's short ...
Page 91
... means by which to constitute a voting subject and forge consensus through collective identification with France . It is within these terms that one can productively consider Villeglé's challenge to the political posters ' potential to ...
... means by which to constitute a voting subject and forge consensus through collective identification with France . It is within these terms that one can productively consider Villeglé's challenge to the political posters ' potential to ...
Page 112
... means by which to superimpose a political message by way of ideograms , as in Rue du Faubourg du Temple ( 1978 ) , with its cross and circle form that represents the Celtic cross inscribed within the " Mediterranean circle of the ...
... means by which to superimpose a political message by way of ideograms , as in Rue du Faubourg du Temple ( 1978 ) , with its cross and circle form that represents the Celtic cross inscribed within the " Mediterranean circle of the ...
Contents
Exhibition | 2 |
Poster Archaeology by Kaira Cabañas | 65 |
An Urban Comedy Jacques Villeglé interviewed by Nicolas Bourriaud | 125 |
Copyright | |
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