Well worth taking a Détour to the Glucksman for French art exhibition
A detail from one of the images in Détour, at the Glucksman in UCC. Picture: François Poivret
Few artists have found inspiration as readily as Jacques Villeglé. A founding member of the Nouveau Réalisme art movement, his best known works were assembled from posters ripped directly from the public walls of Montmartre in Paris and Saint-Malo in Brittany, the two cities he lived in throughout his adult life. Villeglé produced work over nine decades, and only died, aged 96, in 2022.
“Villeglé was a very important artist for us in France,” says Étienne Bernard, director of FRAC Bretagne, the collection of contemporary art housed in Rennes, where Villeglé studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts. “He had a very long relationship with FRAC, almost what you might call a companionship, and we have the most important body of his work in any institution.”
