"My work," says Villeglé, "was organized under the aegis of the "anonymous lacerate"...[ ] The typographical character[of these posters] pulsates there so much that its intertwining introduces us by its almost vibratory disappearance in the field of the fortunately unreadable Mallarméan's unseen" analyses Villeglé. Jacques Villeglé's art is an art of incessant repetition.
Since 1949, he has never stopped lacerating posters found in the streets, he never stopped producing art from the most trivial banality, he never stopped seizing people's daily lives to transfigure them. The laceration is highlighted here more than the work itself: it is the most beautiful tribute to this work based on the gesture, on a violent and political gesture. As Jacques Villeglé says: "For me, laceration represents this primary gesture, it is a guerilla of images and signs."
Jacques Villeglé (born in 1926)
10°Arrdt, novembre 1960, 1960
Affiches lacérées contrecollées sur isorel
Signées en bas à droite
Contresignées, datées, titrées et annotées au dos "le 75"
54 x 43.5 cm
