Jacques Villeglé / L'alphabet Villegléen

Since around 1969, Villeglé has had a real passion for signs, typography, graphic experiments and poetry. This passion gave way to his famous sociopolitical alphabet, a vast repertoire of thousands elements from various world cultures he reinvents and recomposes. The artist has now a unique alphabet that combines roman letters, political and monetary acronyms, esoteric symbols and other elements from popular culture in a single typography. Usually spray-painted, the messages Villeglé composes are for the first time taking on a more tangible and precious form. The artist has imagined eight obsidian cubes, each face carefully engraved with a sign, to give everyone the possibility to throw the dice and create unique random messages. Produced in an edition of 8, this work can also be seen as a real sculpture that we can activate by choosing the 48 signs that will illuminate our interior.