Philippe Delenseigne (Calais - France, 1971). From the very beginning he demonstrates his inclination towards the investigation of the artistic subject: from absolute self-taught he dedicates himself to painting, sculpture and video-art, techniques which, as a whole, testify to his personal eclectic character and aimed at experimentation. He believes in observation and experience: the repeated and continuous journeys between France, Italy, Germany - Paris, Pietrasanta, Berlin bear witness to this. The three European cities, linked together by the resistant fil rouge of an art of the highest level, are well suited to the qualities that the French artist constantly feeds: an attention to elegant and universal forms; a propensity to conceptualize their work; an accurate knowledge of the execution techniques. Three characters that are integrated in his personality in an excellent way. This is proven by its materials, often used according to anti-classical schemes: resins and vinyl glues - with which it gives life to universal agglomerations which are completely original in the contemporary artistic scene; but also bronze and marble, more noble and celebrated subjects, with which to be able to carry out more defined works, to research and therefore to the discovery of what the human eye can not directly perceive. His intense production translates into an equally substantial series of exhibition interventions, often managed by an absolute protagonist. Between 1999 and the very recent present, personal and collective shows the world its remarkable artistic qualities. Tokyo in Asia; Prague, Vienna, Grasse, Barcelona, Oslo, Paris, Berlin, Moscow in Europe; and, among others, Carrara, Pietrasanta, Milan, Turin, La Spezia and Pescara in Italy see him accept unanimous consents, then translated into an equally considerable collecting interest. This curriculum is in fact the sign of an ever-present international ferment that develops between Europe, Asia, North and South America. His works are kept both in public and private collections. Among the public collections we mention: Municipal Gouvernement, Senas (France); Oppéde (France); Municipal Building of Calcinaia (PI); Regional Natural Park of the Apuan Alps, Seravezza (LU); Associazione Scultori, Turin. He lives and works in Pietrasanta (LU).
Critical points
Derived from a deep conceptual reflection, the French artist Philippe Delenseigne organizes his work starting from a visual knowledge that can give life to a key to anti-courtesy reading of art. Closer to the concept of sculpture than of painting, his works possess elements common to both. Precisely by playing on a bifocal vision, by affixing the intellectual characteristics of the other to the one and vice versa, he succeeds in completing the message that art has always brought with it: material existence and spiritual existence. The sculpture in marble or in bronze, therefore, a carefully crafted three-dimensional work, hides its secret in the light. A perfect form that, if struck by an external source selected by the artist, generates in its own shadow the indispensable narrative complement, the most intimate essence of matter laid bare by careful and thoughtful reflection. Survey and curiosity are therefore characteristics common to him: in delicate vinyl works, evocative works halfway between painting and sculpture, the superimposed drops of hot glue develop landscapes in elevation to the limits of the unconscious. The different longitudinal planes that are created, lunar monochromes or multicolored visions of another reality, become the symbol of the different dimensions of existence, to which we must unconsciously undergo. Through this artifice, synthetic and direct compositions of matter, Delenseigne conveys a minimalist and profound vision of the universe, a global image of what we are, a guide to the basic molecular principle of our essence.
Artist's website :https://www.delenseigne.com/
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