JACQUES VILLEGLÉ - STAR

Art. Vallois, 2024. Bilingual edition. Soft cover, full color, 112 pages. 8"x12"

From the press: Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.

A member of the New Realists and a friend of Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé (1926-2022), a pioneer of urban art, has been recognized mainly as a "collector" of posters taken down from the walls, torn up and reorganized in order to appropriate these "reflections of the dominant culture" and to make typographic components emerge that had become abstract.