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source: futurism2-0

Boris Tellegen, aka Delta, is an artist currently living and working in Amsterdam, where he was born in 1968. Tellegen originated as a graffiti artist in the 1980’s, working towards breaking the dimensionality of the flat surface he was painting on. The artist then learned how to push the depth of his work while studying Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft until 1994. The knowledge that Tellegen acquired while studying architecture and design led him to break the plain with sculpturally driven works, rather than tags. Recently, Tellegen has continued creating mixed media sculptures through commissions in his native Netherlands.

AESTHETICS

Since his beginnings in the 80’s writing graffiti under the name “Delta,” Boris Tellegen’s focus has been drawn to walls. Tellegen says that, “if there is a recurrent theme in my body of work made over a thirty-year span, it is walls, and how to transcend their boundaries.” Through creating varying surfaces on the flat concrete walls, the artist began to bend mediums to his will early on in his career. The depth created in these early tags would not only make a name for the artist, but define the path that his artistic style would take.

This path would be further influenced by the artist’s studies in design and architecture, where Tellegen would develop new ways to spatially draw viewers into his creations. Specifically, Tellegen began looking at architectural plans and city layouts, which led to the creation of what the artist termed his “isometric industrial landscapes.” Each of these sculptures combines thick layers of building materials that start out as scattered salvaged materials and combine to form clean, crisp shapes.

With these installations, from a frontal view the composition appears to be a flat plain on geometric forms. However, upon closer inspection from the side, the viewer can see that Tellegen has painstakingly built up layer upon layer of materials. While each piece may be laid out with the minute details of a city planner, Tellegen tears and cuts the materials so that the artist’s hand is still present in each work. Through creating these tensions in his work, the artist’s art “investigates the tension between planning and happenstance; the semblance of order undone by schematic chaos.”

“My work is in collage, sculpture, drawings, videos and installations. It investigates the tension between planning and happenstance; the semblance of order undone by schematic chaos. Mankind is driven by an unshakeable faith in progress, where modern technology and constant growth leads us to a better world. My work explores a different outcome, where the automated forces unleashed develop structures and minds of their own. This fascination formed in the eighties, when the urban street became my canvas as I started writing graffiti under the alias of ‘Delta.’

As Delta I became recognized worldwide among my peers for my three dimensional lettering. If there is a recurrent theme in my body of work made over a thirty-year span, it is walls, and how to transcend their boundaries. My collages read as isometric industrial landscapes. By layering, cutting and chiseling I search for change in scale and perspective. Pieces of paper get torn, glued and then torn again, and replicate beyond control, forming cityscapes resembling fuming wastelands.”

EXHIBITIONS

2011: Abundance, Alice Gallery, Brussels; Subduction Zones, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam.; Onder constructie, RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden, Netherlands; Blowing Up the Spot #2, Studio Lukas Feireiss, Berlin, Germany. 2010: Exothermic, De Fabriek, Eindhoven;
Random Distress, Kleerup Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Backjumps 4.2, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

De Pyramide Van Ijmuiden, RC de ruimte, IJmuiden, Netherlands; Public Provocations, Weil am Rhein, Germany 2009: Dalek and Delta, Elms Lesters Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Born in the Streets, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France; D’raw, Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL Wearable Technologies, NIMK, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2008: The New Dutch Master, Elms Lesters Gallery, London. 2007: VHDG, Installation, Leeuwarden, NL.; Don’t Do That, Elms Lesters Gallery, London. 2006: The Whistle Test, Scion Installation, Los Angeles. 2004: Cubex, Installation, Esplanade, Singapore; Slam Jam, Ferrara, Italy. 2003: 6X6, Hoogt4, Utrecht, Netherlands; Permspace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 2000: Houston Gallery, Seattle, USA. 1998: Musee des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France.

Sources: Information and texts compiled by Rhiannon Platt from an artist’s statement by Tellegen on Alice Gallery’s website, (alicebxl.com), ArtNet.com, and a 2012 artist statement.
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source: hypebeast

Boris Tellegen aka DELTA is recognized as one of the early European graffiti pioneers, and like many before as well as after him he gradually transitioned his focus to experiment with other fine arts. In describing his work, Boris was quoted as saying, “It investigates the tension between planning and happenstance; the semblance of order undone by schematic chaos.” Advancing his sculpture creations, the Amsterdam-based artist links with art purveyor Case Stuydo to produce the “Krux13” Stool. Made of aluminum and wood, the above piece of furniture is said to “follow you wherever you go,” traveling through the chaos of both the urban and home landscape. It features angled legs that resemble the bending of one’s knee, and an open drawer for storage. Although there is no word on its release, interested parties can contact Case Stuydo here to request more information.
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source: rmznru

Борис Телегин, известный также как DELTA, признан одним из первых пионеров граффити в Европе. Он, как и многие другие художники, переключил свое внимание на эксперименты в другие области искусства.
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source: arrestedmotion

It looks like Boris Tellegen aka Delta has decided to go big since we last saw his work at the Elms Lester show in 2009. These new large-scale floating sculptural works from the Dutch artist are currently on display at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw Concert Hall and are collectively entitled Subduction Zones, placed to welcome the World Minimal Music Festival.
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source: allcityblogfr

Boris Tellegen alias Delta alias Mess est un artiste hollandais qui s’est fait connaître dans les années 80 et 90 à pour ses peintures sur trains et métros et son approche différente de la 3D.
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source: acidolatte

Boris Tellegen aka Deltainc was born in 1968, in the Netherlands.
He became one of the pioneers of the European graffiti movement, in 1984, when he made his tag DELTA for the first time. His work shows the hallmark of his time at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Technical University Delft, from where he graduated with a degree in Industrial Design Engineering in 1994. The first DELTA tag appeared on the streets in 1984: through the years this Netherlands based artist has developed a complex and unique style that resembles isometric plans and plays with ideas of architecture and high tech futuristic vehicles. Boris introduced an alien and idiosyncratic aesthetic into graffiti art that escapes the common logo-like word IDs. He influenced writers all over the world for decades with his 3D letter style.
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source: streetart-ekblivejournal

В амстердамском Muziekgebouw Concert Hall были выставлены новые скульптуры Boris’a Tellegen’a, также известного как Delta. Экспозиция носит название Subduction Zones и приурочена к фестивалю музыкального минимализма