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

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

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

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.