Michael Delia
Michael Delia (USA) is an artist whose work spans a wide range of disciplines and media. His work has encompassed paintings, sculpture, installations, and sound art as well as music performances.
Central to his visceral work is an irrefutable yet delicate sense of beauty combined with a lingering sense of histories past. Both Delia's paintings and self-made instruments seemingly transcend time and space, often touching on the ephemeral. His musical instruments and installations are interesting not only from the acoustic but also from visual point of view. Inspired by the musical heritage of various ethnical and cultural provenances, contemporary bricoleur Delia constructs his instruments and acoustic objects from found and banal materials. Doing this, he combines the verified achievements of inventive organologies with the rational musical systems of 20th century. Delia's music is crystally microtonal, meditative, but can be also dramatically majestic.
Michael Delia has presented his art at various American and European venues, including Experimental Intermedia, The Knitting Factory and Exit Art in New York, Stighting Logos in Gent, Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, Hermit in Plasy, Sound Off and The Rosenberg Museum in Slovakia, Rudolfinum in Prague, Sklenìná Louka in Brno, Kép-Ze-Let in Tatabánya and Mamu Galerie in Budapest.
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