DECENTRALISATION 3 Jacques Villeglé (Frac Corse); Paperback French exhibition book from Jacques Villeglé's 2001 exhibition at Frac Corse (Corsica), Used (Some cover damage) It has been fifty years now that Jacques Villeglé has chosen his gesture, his expression: fifty years of exploration in a practice that is still alive and which nonetheless belongs to the history of 20th century art, through the group New Realists coordinated by Pierre Restany in 1960, alongside the Arman, the Hain, the Tinguely: a gesture of a collector who chooses and collects on the walls of cities the accumulated and lacerated posters, fragments of images and signs of time. This appropriation of fragments of reality touches both abstract painting and Lettrist poetry; she holds up a mirror to the way in which society constructs its own representation and how the "anonymous lacerator" comes to mark its reaction on the skin of the walls to the world around it. The artist is simply the one who takes these fragments of reality by framing significant details and transforming these rough moments into a painting, thus testifying to contemporary history. Today of international reputation and represented in the largest European and American museums, Jacques Villeglé pays the same attention to the world around him, by taking an interest in and grouping by series his samples of political, advertising posters or even those of electronic music concerts. Villeglé is always a tireless surveyor sensitive to all the significant encounters produced by the uprooting gesture. He is tirelessly enthusiastic to go in search of these riches of everyday culture: also, when he saw photographs of the display columns taken in Bastia by Anne Deleporte, an artist invited by the FRAC for another project, he was ready to come and do his work of sampling ("uncrusting" he says) and preparing a painting in Corsica, sure to find in this memory through the skin of the walls, striking signs of Corsican reality. (French Language Only 48 pages, 100's of colour photos)