Exploring the themes of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi’s exhibition, The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence, the Deconstructing Decollage workshop invited participants to create eccentric artworks from torn collaged pieces derived from a range of commonplace materials. Held at Manarat al Saadiyat on 10th June, the workshop invited young adults to adopt the signature technique of French artist, Jacques Villeglé, transforming magazines, newspapers, and paints into a décollage – the opposite of collage, whereby artists create pieces by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing pieces of an original image.

Villeglé, a major artist in the post-World War II French art scene, is best known for his distinctive décollage processes of layering advertising posters, creating original pieces of art from ripped billboard posters found along the streets of Paris. He transformed ordinary materials into art by removing the posters from their urban context and gluing them back on canvas. 

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