Galerie Vallois X Art Basel (Booth E11 & U22)

For Art Basel’s 2022 edition, Galerie Georges- Philippe & Nathalie Vallois is showcasing a selection of exceptional works by artists ranging from 1960s European avant-gardes to contemporary art, all the way through American photorealism.

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A monumental mural by Jacques Villeglé will be exhibited in the Unlimited section of Art Basel. Employing his iconic Socio-Political Alphabet, Villeglé quotes Jean Dubuffet, claiming that What matters in a technique it to not control it. The Socio-Political Alphabet project began, as always in Jacques Villeglé’s work, with an anonymous piece of graffiti which the artist discovered on
February 28th, 1969 on the corridor wall of the République metro station. This graffiti spelled out the name of president Nixon, who was then visiting Paris, with the three arrows of the former Socialist party for the N, a Cross of Lorraine for the I, a swastika for the X and a Celtic cross inside the circle of the Jeune Nation movement for the O. Jacques Villeglé memorized it, as he memorized all of the unique pieces of writing (cultural, urban, or from writers’ alphabets) which he subsequently came upon and which, combined, became the source material for his constantly evolving socio-political alphabet, the matrix of drawings and writings to come. “Maybe I would like the graffiti of popular expression, those deviant phenomena that inspire disrespect, to compete with the hegemonic epigraphy of Western culture; for these signs drawn from the triviality of the everyday to be considered as the equals of formal inscriptions.” But the Alphabet takes on its full meaning when it returns directly to the walls or the asphalt that it originated from. Beyond writing, the urban landscape is the guiding principle behind Villeglé’s art: “All of my work is about this eruption of the street into the museum”. The City, to him, is an invaluable source material.

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