ON VIEW: May 19 - July 1, 2022, HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5:30pm; Book Signing and Reception, Thursday, May 26, 5:30-7:30pm
EXHIBITION ON VIEW MAY 26-JULY 1, 2022
RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING THURSDAY, MAY 26, 5:30-7:30PM
[Proof of COVID vaccination + masks required for entry]
Modernism is pleased to present its eighth in-depth survey of decollage works by Jacques VILLEGLE, one of France's most influential contemporary artists. This exhibition also marks the release of our major new monograph: "Jacques Villegle and the Streets of Paris" by Barnaby Conrad III, the first comprehensive book on Jacques Villegle in English.
For over seventy years, Jacques VILLEGLE's work has played an important role in redefining what constitutes a work of art. He is an artist who was instrumental in bringing the streetscape into the space of the exhibition. Jacques Villegle spent most of his life wandering the streets of Paris, pulling torn advertising posters off the ancient walls and pronouncing them Art. "In seizing a poster, I seize history," he says. "What I gather is the reflection of an era."
Jacques VILLEGLE's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, and is the collections of many important museums worldwide (Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Detroit Institute of Arts; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musee d'Israel, Jerusalem). In the fall of 2008 a major retrospective of his works was exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. In 2011 Modernism published the English translation of Villegle's theoretical writings Urbi et Orbi from 1959.
JACQUES VILLEGLE AND THE STREETS OF PARIS by BARNABY CONRAD III, published by Modernism Inc. (San Francisco) and Inkshares (Oakland), is a hardcover (11.5 x 9.5 inches) monograph of 260 pages, with over 200 color images of Villegle's art, as well as 170 vintage photographs of the artist, his intellectual circle, post-World War II political figures, and the streets of Paris.
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Presented by MODERNISM INC..
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EXHIBITION ON VIEW MAY 26-JULY 1, 2022
RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING THURSDAY, MAY 26, 5:30-7:30PM
[Proof of COVID vaccination + masks required for entry]
Modernism is pleased to present its eighth in-depth survey of decollage works by Jacques VILLEGLE, one of France's most influential contemporary artists. This exhibition also marks the release of our major new monograph: "Jacques Villegle and the Streets of Paris" by Barnaby Conrad III, the first comprehensive book on Jacques Villegle in English.
For over seventy years, Jacques VILLEGLE's work has played an important role in redefining what constitutes a work of art. He is an artist who was instrumental in bringing the streetscape into the space of the exhibition. Jacques Villegle spent most of his life wandering the streets of Paris, pulling torn advertising posters off the ancient walls and pronouncing them Art. "In seizing a poster, I seize history," he says. "What I gather is the reflection of an era."
Jacques VILLEGLE's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, and is the collections of many important museums worldwide (Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Detroit Institute of Arts; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musee d'Israel, Jerusalem). In the fall of 2008 a major retrospective of his works was exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. In 2011 Modernism published the English translation of Villegle's theoretical writings Urbi et Orbi from 1959.
JACQUES VILLEGLE AND THE STREETS OF PARIS by BARNABY CONRAD III, published by Modernism Inc. (San Francisco) and Inkshares (Oakland), is a hardcover (11.5 x 9.5 inches) monograph of 260 pages, with over 200 color images of Villegle's art, as well as 170 vintage photographs of the artist, his intellectual circle, post-World War II political figures, and the streets of Paris.
No Charge.
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
ON VIEW: May 19 - July 1, 2022, HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5:30pm; Book Signing and Reception, Thursday, May 26, 5:30-7:30pm
EXHIBITION ON VIEW MAY 26-JULY 1, 2022
RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING THURSDAY, MAY 26, 5:30-7:30PM
[Proof of COVID vaccination + masks required for entry]
Modernism is pleased to present its eighth in-depth survey of decollage works by Jacques VILLEGLE, one of France's most influential contemporary artists. This exhibition also marks the release of our major new monograph: "Jacques Villegle and the Streets of Paris" by Barnaby Conrad III, the first comprehensive book on Jacques Villegle in English.
For over seventy years, Jacques VILLEGLE's work has played an important role in redefining what constitutes a work of art. He is an artist who was instrumental in bringing the streetscape into the space of the exhibition. Jacques Villegle spent most of his life wandering the streets of Paris, pulling torn advertising posters off the ancient walls and pronouncing them Art. "In seizing a poster, I seize history," he says. "What I gather is the reflection of an era."
Jacques VILLEGLE's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, and is the collections of many important museums worldwide (Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Detroit Institute of Arts; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musee d'Israel, Jerusalem). In the fall of 2008 a major retrospective of his works was exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. In 2011 Modernism published the English translation of Villegle's theoretical writings Urbi et Orbi from 1959.
JACQUES VILLEGLE AND THE STREETS OF PARIS by BARNABY CONRAD III, published by Modernism Inc. (San Francisco) and Inkshares (Oakland), is a hardcover (11.5 x 9.5 inches) monograph of 260 pages, with over 200 color images of Villegle's art, as well as 170 vintage photographs of the artist, his intellectual circle, post-World War II political figures, and the streets of Paris.
No Charge.
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
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EXHIBITION ON VIEW MAY 26-JULY 1, 2022
RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING THURSDAY, MAY 26, 5:30-7:30PM
[Proof of COVID vaccination + masks required for entry]
Modernism is pleased to present its eighth in-depth survey of decollage works by Jacques VILLEGLE, one of France's most influential contemporary artists. This exhibition also marks the release of our major new monograph: "Jacques Villegle and the Streets of Paris" by Barnaby Conrad III, the first comprehensive book on Jacques Villegle in English.
For over seventy years, Jacques VILLEGLE's work has played an important role in redefining what constitutes a work of art. He is an artist who was instrumental in bringing the streetscape into the space of the exhibition. Jacques Villegle spent most of his life wandering the streets of Paris, pulling torn advertising posters off the ancient walls and pronouncing them Art. "In seizing a poster, I seize history," he says. "What I gather is the reflection of an era."
Jacques VILLEGLE's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, and is the collections of many important museums worldwide (Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Detroit Institute of Arts; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musee d'Israel, Jerusalem). In the fall of 2008 a major retrospective of his works was exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. In 2011 Modernism published the English translation of Villegle's theoretical writings Urbi et Orbi from 1959.
JACQUES VILLEGLE AND THE STREETS OF PARIS by BARNABY CONRAD III, published by Modernism Inc. (San Francisco) and Inkshares (Oakland), is a hardcover (11.5 x 9.5 inches) monograph of 260 pages, with over 200 color images of Villegle's art, as well as 170 vintage photographs of the artist, his intellectual circle, post-World War II political figures, and the streets of Paris.
No Charge.
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
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