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Item Number: 133453
Title: JACQUES VILLEGIE : Retrospective
Author: Stella, Dominique
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788864031880
Description: Poggibonsi: Carlo Cambi, 2014. 34cm., pbk., 228pp. illus. English text. Summary: Jacques Villeglé is linked with the New Realist movement – that is how he has been catalogued by art history – on account of those decisive episodes in his personal endeavours that historians consider to be the essential and distinctive moments of an artist’s life. It is certainly true that his membership of the affichistes (poster artists) – a category of artists within the New Realist movement in which posters ripped from their support are the distinguishing element in their works – was a fundamental period of his evolution, in which the personal research he had been conducting for a number of years harmonized with that of the movement. There was therefore a Jacques Villeglé from before the poster artists (from 1945 to 1960), when his work was closely linked with that of his fellow-Breton Raymond Hains, and a Villeglé poster artist (1960 to 1968) as a member of the New Realists. From the start of the 1970s to the early 2000s, Villeglé followed his own independent and untrammelled route, developing his oeuvre from posters that he ripped down from walls in cities from Paris to Buenos Aires. He is an indefatigable observer of urban life, the place that provides him with the driving force of his work, which revolves around emblematic social themes (politics, advertising, letters and signs, among others). Taken as a whole, his body of work offers an almost sociological appraisal of his epoch. In 2008, the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou in Paris paid tribute to this artist with a retrospect ive titled La Comédie Urbaine.
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