VILLEGLE – VALLOIS
Over the last two years, my mentality has changed regarding the choice and framing of the posters I collect. Previously, I insisted on subverting a commercial or political aspect. The slogan, the brand name of the product became illegible, the celebrity or the politician’s smile disfigured. When I snatched posters from painting exhibitions, even if I held the exhibited painter in high esteem, despite the distorting irony provided by
the tears, I had the feeling of being confined to my own milieu as a visual artist. Conversely, this new thematic series about itinerant music groups, rappers and rockers, does away with any and all insecurity. The redundancy of their names, so sparsely hatched and legible most of the time, provides a clarity of information that doesn’t bother me at all. I hope to create a bridge between two spheres which, although related, have little interaction and hardly ever mingle. In the same way, I hope to encourage their different audiences to immerse themselves in an art form that may have been indifferent to them. The exhibition « Jacques Villeglé, STAR », the first organized by the gallery since the artist’s death in 2022 and the 13th since the beginning of our collaboration in 1999, was conceived as a tribute to his insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career.