Opening reception Thursday, March 15, 5:30-8pm; Exhibition March 15 - April 28
For over sixty-five 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's works-from his invention of a socio-political alphabet that draws on symbols, codes, and acronyms borrowed from subversive and counter-cultural graffiti, to his transfer of torn posters from the street to the exhibition space-highlight the political dimension of our urban communities. His torn posters, with their fragmented images and dislocated typography, are spontaneous, anonymous, and collective; they invite the visitor to lose himself in a space that is as fictional as it is poetic.
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; 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, and two new scholarly monographs are forthcoming later this year, one by Alain Borer, and the other by Barnaby Conrad III.
Modernism is pleased to present this in-depth survey of decollage works by Jacques VILLEGLE, one of France's most influential contemporary artists.
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For over sixty-five 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's works-from his invention of a socio-political alphabet that draws on symbols, codes, and acronyms borrowed from subversive and counter-cultural graffiti, to his transfer of torn posters from the street to the exhibition space-highlight the political dimension of our urban communities. His torn posters, with their fragmented images and dislocated typography, are spontaneous, anonymous, and collective; they invite the visitor to lose himself in a space that is as fictional as it is poetic.
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; 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, and two new scholarly monographs are forthcoming later this year, one by Alain Borer, and the other by Barnaby Conrad III.
Modernism is pleased to present this in-depth survey of decollage works by Jacques VILLEGLE, one of France's most influential contemporary artists.
Opening reception Thursday, March 15, 5:30-8pm; Exhibition March 15 - April 28
For over sixty-five 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's works-from his invention of a socio-political alphabet that draws on symbols, codes, and acronyms borrowed from subversive and counter-cultural graffiti, to his transfer of torn posters from the street to the exhibition space-highlight the political dimension of our urban communities. His torn posters, with their fragmented images and dislocated typography, are spontaneous, anonymous, and collective; they invite the visitor to lose himself in a space that is as fictional as it is poetic.
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; 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, and two new scholarly monographs are forthcoming later this year, one by Alain Borer, and the other by Barnaby Conrad III.
Modernism is pleased to present this in-depth survey of decollage works by Jacques VILLEGLE, one of France's most influential contemporary artists.
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For over sixty-five 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's works-from his invention of a socio-political alphabet that draws on symbols, codes, and acronyms borrowed from subversive and counter-cultural graffiti, to his transfer of torn posters from the street to the exhibition space-highlight the political dimension of our urban communities. His torn posters, with their fragmented images and dislocated typography, are spontaneous, anonymous, and collective; they invite the visitor to lose himself in a space that is as fictional as it is poetic.
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; 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, and two new scholarly monographs are forthcoming later this year, one by Alain Borer, and the other by Barnaby Conrad III.
Modernism is pleased to present this in-depth survey of decollage works by Jacques VILLEGLE, one of France's most influential contemporary artists.
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