Perpendicular Chaos at SK12 March 2 - May 1 2026

Kaleidoscope, 2025. Collage, mixed media. 61 x 90 cm.

DAVID DELLAGI

PERPENDICULAR CHAOS

SK12

2 March - 1 May 2026

In his new collages and paintings, David Dellagi combines the perpendicular and the chaotic. The result is a kaleidoscopic wunderkammer of people, machines, food and geometry, exploring themes such as the carnivalesque and form versus deformation. The artworks contain humorously fragmented narratives and irreverently quote from art history in a brash and inventive visual style, splintering, sampling and turning the world upside down.

Vernissage March 2, 16-18 PM, SK12, Store Kongensgade 12, 1264 Copenhagen K

The Language of Form at Galería Victor Lope

The language of form

galería victor lope

22/05/2025 - 17/06/2025

Dirk Salz,
David Dellagi, Michael Craik
Jo Hummel, Jacinto Moros
Francisco Suárez, Patrik Grijalvo
Birte Horn

The Language of Form brings together the work of eight international artists who, from different disciplines and processes, explore form as a vehicle for thought, perception and experience. Far from conceiving it as a mere contour, form here becomes a language of its own: a visual system that articulates color, matter, volume and space to generate meaning. Throughout this exhibition, a plural territory unfolds where the pictorial, the sculptural and the photographic dialogue from the border between the physical and the intangible.

Each artist approaches form from a singular perspective. Dirk Salz and Michael Craik explore the depth of color and time through layers and transparencies, while Patrik Grijalvo and Birte Horn decompose reality and recompose it as emotional architecture or perceptual collage. For their part, Jo Hummel and Francisco Suárez work from rhythm and repetition, between geometric precision and freedom of gesture. David Dellagi transports us to kaleidoscopic worlds between the digital and the tactile, and Jacinto Moros turns the curve into a symbol of vital flow, integrating nature and mathematics in a poetics of movement.

Beyond styles or techniques, all these artists share an intimate and reflexive approach to creation, where form is not an end, but a process: a way of thinking, of looking and of being in the world. The language of form thus proposes a visual experience that invites us to pause, to observe and to allow ourselves to be transformed by the possibilities of space, colour and matter as expressions of the invisible.

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Red Car Blue Car - a Mobile Exhibition and Concert

David Dellagi: Mirage, 2020. Oil on canvas, 105 x 100 cm.

RED CAR BLUE CAR TOUR 2025

David Dellagi has created two animated video works for the Red Car Blue Car project. With a runtime of, respectively, 51 minutes and 13 minutes, they are the artist’s most ambitious video works to date and the latest expression of his multimedia practice. The project was initiated by acclaimed Danish composer Kristian Rymkier, and indeed the soundtrack of Dellagi’s videos consists of Rymkier’s compositions. The title and visual themes of the project was originally inspired by David Dellagi’s 2020 painting Mirage.

Red Car Blue Car is a mobile exhibition and concert room in which classical music, sound art and sustainable auto recycling come together in a sensuous 3D sound experience. The exhibition was created by Danish composer Kristian Rymkier and invites the audience into a poetic, interactive installation, involving used cars that serve as the framework of a unique audiovisual experience. In addition to the immersive sound experience, the audience can explore installations based on the aesthetics and potential of recycling.

From June 2025 and all the way through to 2027 Red Car Blue Car tours 17 Jutlandic cities, where the exhibition is presented as part of “Verdensmålsgavlene” - a string of artworks inspired by the UN’s global goals.

TOUR PLAN 2025

Holstebro – 13.-15. June

Herning – 20.-22. June

Asp – 27.-29. June

Ikast – 4.-6. July

Ringkøbing – 11.-13. July

Ebeltoft – 18.-20. July

Hedensted – 29.-31. August

Brande – 5.-7. September

Hyperspace | Solo exhibition | 30/03/2023 - 06/05/2023 | Victor Lope Arte Contemporaneo | Barcelona, Spain

David Dellagi: Cygnus, 2023. Acrylic on linen, 150 x 112,5 cm.

David Dellagi’s practice aims at creating a kaleidoscopic and three-dimensional abstract universe, exploring the notion of dynamism on the canvas. In his latest works, this approach unfolds fully, as colorful polygons seem to be hurling through space, and asymmetrical patterns of color and light open up different spatial perspectives coexisting in one and the same painting.

Using cut-outs of photographic material, each painting starts out as a paper collage, allowing for a layered visual multiverse of references hidden inside the paintings. The collage is then manipulated digitally and painted onto the canvas. With their use of hard-edge geometric color fields, the paintings have much in common with concrete abstract art. Dellagi seeks to fuse this aesthetic with the three-dimensional and kaleidoscopic sensibility of early 20th-century art movements, such as Futurism and Cubism.

Hyperspace, the title of the exhibition, refers to the spatial sense of ‘hyperdynamic speed and motion in the paintings. It also refers to the science fiction concept of hyperspace, whose basic premise is that vast distances through space can be traversed quickly by traveling faster than light. Scientifically speaking, though, faster-than-light travel is an impossibility. The works in the show are preoccupied with this impossible idea of miraculously jumping around the cosmos, just as in the inspirational ‘stargate’ section of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey”, where the starry void stretches out before us, erupting into a kaleidoscope of colour and accelerating lights.

Here, Now | Group exhibition | 15/12/2022 - 04/02/2023 | Victor Lope Arte Contemporaneo | Barcelona, Spain

David Dellagi: Jupiter, 2022. Acrylic on linen, 160 x 150 cm.

Victor Lope Gallery is pleased to present “HERE, NOW”, the next group exhibition that includes the work of sixteen artists working in different mediums such as sculpture, drawing, painting, collage or photography.  In the manner of the Latin “Hic et nuc”, this exhibition concentrates on the practical and concrete aspects of the gallery’s time and place: the artists it represents and the works that live in it. In the show, it will be possible to see for the first time previously unexhibited works as well as to rediscover relevant pieces by the selected artists.

Participating artists: CARSTEN BECK, MALGOSIA JANKOWSKA, MARIO DILITZ,
DAVID DELLAGI, KEPA GARRAZA, CONCHA MARTÍNEZ BARRETO, DIRK SALZ,
JO HUMMEL, MAX GÄRTNER, ALFREDO CHAMAL.

Recent Paintings | Solo exhibition | 06/08/2022 - 03/09/2022 | Galleri Benoni | Copenhagen, Denmark

David Dellagi: Venus, 2022. Acrylic on linen, 150 x 130 cm.

The paintings of David Dellagi (b. 1970) showcase no easy task. They are visual spectacles, carying many layers of meaning beneath their appealing exterior.

The kaleidoscopic framework brings many of us back to childhood memories of escaping the real world by focusing on the dreamlike fiction before our eyes, looking through the magical lens.

In a similar manner, Dellagi creates these paintings with references to photos, cut-outs and collage material. The end result is an altered image on the canvas, which keeps us curious and amazed.

Soon…

From 06.08. @galleribenoni

A brand new body of work from David Dellagi will be unveiled.

David Dellagi (b. 1970) has produced a remarkably rich and diverse body of work, ranging from painting, sculpture and collage to film. He made his artistic debut at The Artist’s Autumn Exhibition (KE), in Copenhagen in 1993. Since then, he has exhibited widely in places such as Skive Kunstmuseum, Rønnebæksholm, Kunstbygningen i Vrå, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Danish Graphics Association, as well as in New York, London, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Mexico City.