"Using a Rembrandt
like an ironing board
Marcel Duchamp "
Jacques Villeglé - 2002
The bookshop is delighted to be able to show the public for the first time 8 slates by Jacques Villeglé created in 2002 during the development of his most imposing work, "Insoluble Memory"exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 2008.
A kind of schoolchildren's graffiti, calligraphed using his Alphabet Socio-Politique on 1950s slates made by Grosjean, these quotations from artists and writers have both a hieroglyphic and naive character, first prompting decipherment and then astonishment, a smile and a playfulness.
Come and discover the words borrowed from Marcel Duchamp, Nadja, André Breton, Jean Schuster, Octavio Paz, Gustave Flaubert, Paul Klee, Paul Tilman and Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.
These works were included in the catalogue of the 2003 exhibition at the Musée de Sainte Croix in Poitiers, Villeglé - Socio-Political Alphabet. Distributed to the exhibition staff, the artist and the publisher, these prints were never offered for sale.
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