Dear PPG Readers, I'm sorry...

I am in the Basque Country having fun with Bidaia...




















and some new local friends :





... but don't worry !
I'll be back one of these days with a lot of basque red&green pics.






















Yours faithful,
K@tuHoria
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Last Villeglé stolen by night from Le Mur !

... or the Price of Fame !

Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (1926, Quimper, Brittany)
is a French mixed-media artist, famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters
and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters.
(more on wiki or/and official website)



Exceptionally, last "Le Mur" opening was on Thursday and Jacques, 82, was there...
see the nice leafar's Flickr set.




















but a couple of days later, on Saturday night, someone cut off and robbed
the collage, valued at some hundred thousand Euros.






























So, after a two days' exhibit, Villeglé's poster desappeared and Martha Cooper's
was back to surface...

That's the way street art goes on.
___________________________

Beaubourg hosts Villeglé...

EXHIBITION
September 17/2008 - January 5/2009
For the first time in France the Centre Pompidou is presenting
a retrospective of the work of Jacques Villeglé, one of today's major
French artists.
Now aged 82 years, Jacques Villeglé has developed since 1949
a very detailed work, with an amazing formal richness almost
exclusively using a single material – the ripped or lacerated poster.







In the meantime, Le Mur invites you to the next Oberkampf's Wall,
dedicated to Villeglé !

Spotlight on Nadine & Viswa in Ivry...

When in Ivry, this is the right spot in rue Jules-Vanzuppe !
Look on your right and there is # 44, old industrial building, former factory.
You are in one of the many splendoured artists' cities of this rediscovered
suburban area.
When Nadine moves somewhere, you're granted it's a great place.


































































(Maybe I should add a little slideshow of some other places I saw around here),
but...
"Soft you now !
the fair Nadine !
(sottovoce) Nymph, in thy paintings, be all my pics remembered."

... Here she is !

She said "Welcome, so nice to see you again, G@ttoGiallo" !

Yep, we didn't see each other for a long time... since she left my fief, in fact, five or six years ago.
She's all the time to and fro, in India, four times already this year and next trip is due in November...
Wow ! It's a lifework to become a Bollywood Films expert, you know.
I knew her as a film editor and, of course, as a painter.

Here is a glimpse on her last work...












































(You can see more on her new blog-gallery).





















Around 6/7pm, Viswa arrived and we had drinks, chatting about different matters
like the next NUIT BLANCHE, due on October 4th/5th, when Nadine will be
in charge at Gare de Lyon... Yo ! read here !













And the sun progressively disappeared beyond the railroad
and this beautiful skyline !
(gosh, I think it's time I change my camera).

Yours faithful,
G@tto
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Nadine Tarbouriech & Pleins Feux 2008

PLEINS FEUX 2008
Spotlight on IVRY-sur-Seine
From 17th to 23rd September

Open door studios > 150 artists > sep 20/21
Espace Robespierre > 50 artists exhibition > sep 20/21

Where > Différent places in Ivry-sur-Seine,
M° Mairie d'Ivry, line 7 - check the map.















Nadine Tarbouriech open door studio/Atelier 22
44, rue Jules-Vanzuppe (#31 on Pleins Feux map)
bât. B, 2nd floor - Atelier 22
phone 01 46 70 88 15































(clich to enlarge)

Contact > phone 01 49 60 25 06
eMail > galeriefernandleger@ivry94.fr
Site> http://www.caci.ivry94.fr