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Jacques Villeglé
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François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Mimmo Rotella,
Jacques Villeglé, Wolf Vostell.
One of the most radical and simultaneously
most poetic approaches to reality was made from 1950 onwards
by the “Affichistes”: Francois Dufrêne,
Raymond Hains, and Jacques Villeglé belonged, like
Jean Tinguely, to the “Nouveaux Réalistes”
group. Their creative work fitted in with that of the like-minded
Mimmo Rotella and Wolf Vostell. The exhibition “Poetry
of the Metropolis. The Affichistes” jointly devised
by Museum Tinguely and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt has as
its theme an artistic current which, outside of France, in
Switzerland and Germany too, has been largely disregarded
up to now. The Affichistes are now comprehensively on show
in Switzerland for the first time ever. The exhibition is
arranged in the form of a trail, which presents the urban
space as a place of varied inspiration for strolling flâneurs
and creates locations for encountering the radical inventions
of these five artists; be they décollages, or filmic,
photographic, or even poetical experiments.
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