Villegle Jacques

Jacques Mahé de La Villeglé, says Jacques Villeglé, was born to Quimper in 1926. Member(limb) of the Movement of the New Realists, he(it) presents a step(initiative) of "collector" of torn up posters and theorist of the appropriation. Jacques Villeglé studies the paint(painting) and the drawing to the art college of Rennes where he gets acquainted of Raymond Hains ( 1945 ), to whom will bind(connect) him(it) a definitive complicity.

He works a while at an architect, where he(it) gets acquainted with the questions of town planning and public space, before studying the architecture to the art college of Nantes (in January, 1947 - in December, 1949). From 1947, he begins to harvest to Saint-Malo the fragments of the Atlantic Wall and the twisted chains, at which he considers as sculptures.

From December, 1949, he limits his(its) appropriatif behavior to the only torn up posters. For him, the real artist is " lacérateur unknown person ", the collection which can be made by whoever: he so announces the moment of the disappearance of the face(figure) of the artist, giving up the place(square) to the "collector" or the collector.

Everybody knows the posters of advertising(publicity) juxtaposed in thick and half torn up coats(layers). By presenting them, the décollagiste Jacques villeglé shows the destruction of the communication by the media of mass. The exthétique presentation(display) of the waste of a modern metropolis becomes a symbolic revolt against the increasing marketing of the townscape.

His conception of the art, the most radical of the lacérateurs of posters. He fights vehemently the concept of the original and the artistic writing. Himself(itself) declare on this matter " I distance from the action(share) to paint and to stick. Is not the not premeditation an inexhaustible source(spring) of art, and even a ripe(mature) art for the museum ? I consider as positive what leaves behind him any passer-by who tore up a poster without the slightest artistic intention " Villeglé as artist is only proceeding then to the selection and protect the poster torn up by the destruction.