Jacques Villeglè, born in 1926, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes she met Raymond Heins, which formed an important partnership for the development of your mutual careers. What we in common? We shared the same questions about our future: what to do? What paint? And the idea of not wanting to learn a trade. Our friendship and artistic affinity is fed thanks to long walks along the Loire we were doing, and just one of them represented a fundamental turning point.

It was January 1947, and we were impressed by the "spectacle" of the shipyards of Nantes, by the sound of electric saws, the crane movement and the transporter bridge. That was the moment in which it became clear for the first ti...