Jacques Mahé De La Villeglé Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Jacques Mahé De La Villeglé
early life and career jacques mahé de la villeglé, a french mixed-media artist, was born on march 27, 1926. his artistic journey began in 1947, in saint-malo, where he collected found objects like steel wires and bricks from the atlantic retaining wall. this marked the inception of his unique approach to art. decollage and ultra-lettrism in december 1949, jacques mahé de la villeglé shifted focus to ripped advertising posters, collabora
ting with fellow artist raymond hains. this led to the development of ultra-lettrist psychogeographical hypergraphics in the 1950s. a notable example is the phonetic poem hepérile éclaté, published in june 1953, featuring unreadable text through grooved glass. nouveau réalisme and marginal remains as a member of the nouveau réalisme art group (1960–1970), jacques mahé de la villeglé concentrated on the anonymous and marginal remains of…