Yesterday I went to see the Jaques Villeglé exhibition with Valerie at the Pompidou Centre. Fantastic showing, I’d love to have one of his works hanging in our apartment. It would look just perfect, even though we barely have any straight walls left to hang things on. Being on the top floor, in the roof, most of our walls are at a 45 degree angle… we’ve mastered a method to still hang things (thanks to Roger) but it doesn’t work for all our art. Case in point the new Arnaud Liard painting we just bought is on canvas, with a layer of cement covering it. We hung it in the best spot in the house, in the lounge, on an angle for a couple of weeks before we noticed that the canvas was literally billowing out in the centre from the weight of the cement. A quick change and it’s now centre spot in the dining room on a flat wall… it’s taken some time to get used to the change of location, we had to rotate all our other painting to make them work but we’re getting there.

Anyway, Jaques Villeglé. He has several series on show, along with a video of him today. Most of his work is huge, fabulously bright colours, and what’s amazing is he’s been true to his art for 50 odd years, the same practice of poster ripping year after year. Today apparently he’s stopped since laws have changed and bill posting is less and less common, not to mention he must be in his early 80’s. But wow. Great show if you get a chance.