David Delgado

I do abstract but not exclusively.
I want my work to be away of any content, or at least exempt of a content that can be textualized.

I believe Art is another way of knowledge, and so I consider it to be more coherent if it is non linguistic.

I reject any content that can be encapsulated in words.

All we can see in art galleries are metaphors. With different rhetorical formulas, but in the end, everything is a metaphor; metaphors and symbols.
And I want to do something away from it.

Occasionally, I play with some cultural references, but this is always in a mocking way.
I feel very close to Dada; Dada not as a movement, but an attitude, as an understanding of everything.

I love Trash Culture and also Decorative Arts: in both cases because of the lack of pretension. "Sublime" is for me an archaic word.

I always tried to paint in the same way I draw because of the immediacy and freshness of drawing. Rather than virtuosity, I tend to do something foolish and ridiculous.
In the end, my personal quest is to create an Art full of honesty, simplicity and grace.



www.vimeo.com/delgadodavid
instagram: delgadodavid.artist

A.A. in Product Design by Escuela de Arte de Alcoy (Alicante, Spain)

Monographic courses in Illustration by Escuela de Arte de Alcoy (Spain)

Course of Advances Techniques of Engraving. Instituto de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert. Alicante (Spain)

Course of Electrographic Engraving. Instituto de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert. Alicante (Spain)

(Curso de formación Ocupacional) Web design on Flash. CAD-Isseny. Barcelona (Spain)

Workshop of Fiberglass modelling. Centre Cívic Drassanes. Barcelona (Spain)

Solo Shows
2013
-"Exposición David delgado" Cultural space 8y1/2 Alicante (Spain)
2012
-"Mirada tangencial + Soul and bodies" Sala Plan C of Grupo Casamayor. Alicante (Spain)
2011
-"Soul and Bodies" Bel-Luna Jazz Club. Barcelona (Spain)
2008
-“1 Día” (1 Day) With Theo&dora, Sally Schoffield, Sylvie Rodriguez. At the studio of Theo&dora. Barcelona (Spain)
-“Petalopárpado” Hairdressing salón of Salva de Luxe. Barcelona (Spain)
2006
-"26.000 años luz" (26.000 light-years) with David Apfel and Angels Girona García. Niu Gallery. Barcelona (Spain)
1999
-”EAC” (Contemporary Art Meeting) Selected for the cycle of exhibitions for the Institut de Cultura Juan Gil Albert. Alicante (Spain)
1998-9
-”¿A qué huelen las bolitas?” (What do the little balls smell like?) With Aurelio Ayela. Lae.sferázul Gallery, Valencia (Spain)
-”New Objects” CAL-Arts, California Institute of the Arts. Los Ángeles (USA)


Group Shows
2013
-Hermon Laprada. International Flat Files Project. Phlat Phile Studio. Los Angeles, CA (US)
http://hermonlaprada.tumblr.com/post/60408018890/hermon-la-prada-presents-letting-in-rome-in-los
-“Bang VI Festival Internacional de Vídeo Arte de Barcelona” Barcelona (Spain)
2012
-"Fresh Art Fair 2012" Majorca (Spain) http://www.flesha...