Jacques Villeglé, considered by contemporary street artists as the "grandfather" of urban art, particularly through his work on lacerated posters, died at the age of 96, the Center Pompidou announced on Tuesday.
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"It is with great sadness that we learn of the disappearance of the artist Jacques Villeglé, at the age of 96"
, announced the Center Pompidou, which devoted a major retrospective to him in 2008, saluting
"the memory of 'a great artist, flâneur and collector of posters whose singular work marked the second half of the 20th century'.
Founding member of the New Realists group in 1960, with Arman and Yves Klein in particular, Jacques Villeglé, whose real name is Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, was born on March 27, 1926 in Quimper and studied at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes then Nantes. .
It was with his friend, visual artist Raymond Hains, who died in 2005, that he took off his first poster, in 1949, in Paris.
The artist continued his work based on torn posters until 2003.
In the 1970s, he also created
"socio-political graphics"
, anonymous writing pasted on the walls of the metro, dreaming of creating an alphabet that he highlighted through typography.
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