Jacques Villeglé

Jacques Villeglé
Villeglé in 2016
Born
Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé

27 March 1926 (1926-03-27)
Quimper, France
Died6 June 2022 (2022-06-07) (aged 96)
France
Known forLettrism
MovementNew Realism

Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (27 March 1926 – 6 June 2022) was a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters. He was a member of the Nouveau Réalisme art group (1960–1970). His work is primarily focused on the anonymous and on the marginal remains of civilization. The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has qualified him as one of the most outstanding exponents of liquid art, in his work Liquid Life, together with Herman Braun-Vega and Manolo Valdés.