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This exhibition, which groups together around a hundred of his works from the 1940s to the present day, tackles the artist's creative career in a thematic way from the typographical explosion and big colourful abstract compositions of his beginnings, right up to his more recent rhythmic juxtapositions from concert posters.
Positioning himself as a loafer, Jacques Villeglé is not an author of the "ready-made", even if he does not intervene on the posters he collects from the street (except for an occasional "boost") to stick them onto a canvas. His work consists more in letting hidden beauty emerge from urban chaos through the layers of paper torn by anonymous hands which have also sometimes written on the posters or spattered them.
Villeglé's work is a tremendous seismograph of our "collective realities" such as they are distilled by urban space and whose stories are recreated for us via the unusual reality of its walls.
It reveals to what extent what we see is conditioned by this everyday visual environment and reactivates our memory in a critical, but also enjoyable, way.
At the crossroads of movements which are now "historical", such as New Realism, Lettrism or the Situationist International, Villeglé's work, anchored in current affairs, is also hailed by the younger generations.
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In collaboration with media partner
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