This book presents a set of fifty portraits of Jacques Villeglé conducted between 1985 and 2013. Twenty-eight years during which the photographer has followed this internationally acclaimed artist. It actively contributed to the establishment of the group "New Realists" avant-garde movement founded in 1960, which advocates a return to reality and the use of found objects in the creative process (assembly, accumulation, laceration …). It emphasizes the "collective realities" makes urban and historical evidence of original modern society.
In this book, François Poivret uncovers a chronological emergence of the works of Jacques Villeglé through its meetings grubbing his carvings alphabet letters constituting its socio-political but also what underlies his work of traces, indices (tags, graffiti, signs …) captured in the cities where the artist evolves. He finally realizes Jacques Villeglé wanderings of Rome, Istanbul, New York, San Francisco, but also in Paris, Saint Malo …
In this book, François Poivret uncovers a chronological emergence of the works of Jacques Villeglé through its meetings grubbing his carvings alphabet letters constituting its socio-political but also what underlies his work of traces, indices (tags, graffiti, signs …) captured in the cities where the artist evolves. He finally realizes Jacques Villeglé wanderings of Rome, Istanbul, New York, San Francisco, but also in Paris, Saint Malo …
François Poivret became the official photographer of the great artists of our time: Caesar, Olivier
Debre, François Bouillon, Antonio Saura, Brice Marden, Jacques Villeglé. With the latter, he developed a close collaboration since 1985, includes work in the workshop and report on places grubbing, giving a very particular urban image.
He lives near Rennes. Since 1985, he regularly carries portraits of Jacques Villeglé during his travels during the execution of his works at exhibitions.
Debre, François Bouillon, Antonio Saura, Brice Marden, Jacques Villeglé. With the latter, he developed a close collaboration since 1985, includes work in the workshop and report on places grubbing, giving a very particular urban image.
He lives near Rennes. Since 1985, he regularly carries portraits of Jacques Villeglé during his travels during the execution of his works at exhibitions.
Danielle Robert-Guédon was born in 1954 in Nantes, where she lives today.
Novelist she has published: The Despair of the monkey, ed. Balland, 1997; The large slaughterhouse, ed. Balland, 1999, Deposition, ed. Watermarks / A Silk, 2000; I receive, ed. Balland, 2002; Weddings, ed. FRAC Bretagne, 2003, The Living, the dead and sailors, ed. Joca Seria, 2005; The Rongère, Argol, 2009.
Novelist she has published: The Despair of the monkey, ed. Balland, 1997; The large slaughterhouse, ed. Balland, 1999, Deposition, ed. Watermarks / A Silk, 2000; I receive, ed. Balland, 2002; Weddings, ed. FRAC Bretagne, 2003, The Living, the dead and sailors, ed. Joca Seria, 2005; The Rongère, Argol, 2009.
Isabelle Tessier
Director of the Vitré Art library, Isabelle Tessier curates exhibitions in charge of a public collection of contemporary art and has written many texts for monographic catalogues and books, in particular on contemporary photography.
Salonfäheg
Pierre Galopin
Isabelle Tessier, Louis-Michel Nourry, François Perrodin, Laurent Grivet
Never Mind
André Mérian
Isabelle Tessier
Cosmogonie
Pascal Mirande
Isabelle Tessier
Parallax-Limbo
Edouard Prulhière
Isabelle Tessier, Saul Ostrow, Tristan Trémeau, Sandra Delacourt, Sébastien Gokalp
François Poivret, Jacques Villeglé
François Poivret
Danielle Robert-Guedon, Isabelle Tessier
Inclinations
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel
Danielle Robert-Guedon, Isabelle Tessier
