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Boris Tellegen aka DELTA
Legendary Dutch Graffiti Pioneer
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Novo-s
Novo-s
2020
256 bits
256 bits
2020
Zero-ctrl
Zero-ctrl
2020
C-Strike
C-Strike
2020
X 1801 Lost
X 1801 Lost
2019
Complete Control Over Everything
Complete Control Over Everything
2019
Repeat until loop
Repeat until loop
2019
New and Delete
New and Delete
2019
Explicit Basic (Access Level Syntax File Modifier)
Explicit Basic (Access Level Syntax File Modifier)
2019
For Off and On
For Off and On
2019
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Biography
Boris Tellegen (NL, 1968) began his artistic career in the 1980s, using his pseudonym DELTA. As a Graffiti artist, Tellegen treated the two-dimensional frame of the letter and the word as sculpture, bursting out or morphing into the wall, piercing its boundaries by adding a dimension. By combining the reliefs of his practice with his education in industrial design, he soon started to create three-dimensional work on the intersection of architecture, painting, sculpture and installation.
In his body of work made over a thirty-year span, Tellegen explores how to transcend the boundaries of walls by annexing, deconstructing and recomposing them, to ultimately disregard them in recent installations. Through the ever-fluctuating shape of his work, Tellegen continues to disrupt our perception of surface and space.
Boris Tellegen received his education in Industrial Design Engineering at the Technical University of Delft (NL, 1988-94). Tellegen has exhibited widely in European, North American and Australian museums, institutions and galleries. Recent exhibitions include MIMA, Brussels (BE, 2017), Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (FR, 2016), Amsterdam Museum (NL, 2015) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR, 2014). Tellegen regularly creates commissioned sculptures in the public spaces. A recent example is a series of sculptures between Amersfoort and Utrecht in the framework of De Stijl’s centenary celebration (NL, 2017).