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Biography of David Delesalle
The painter-engraver David Delesalle was born in Lesquin (Nord) in 1974. He studied at the Ecole Régionale Supérieure d'Expression Plastique in Tourcoing, then obtained a master's degree in Science and Technology - Art and Communication at the University of Valenciennes. He obtained a teaching position at the ENSAP in Bordeaux. The artist lives and works today in Dordogne.
Assimilated to the current of the concrete art, even realist, the painter-engraver David Delesalle establishes a reworked panorama of the contemporary still life, around a body to body with the matter - ink or painting - and its support - paper or canvas. Alternating between painting and engraving, he takes as his subject elements taken from everyday life, in order to question our links with the environment that surrounds us. Thus, in the early 2000s, the artist boldly threw himself on radishes, red or white, and then seized cabbages, beets and potatoes. His greatest conquests are in the housewife's basket. A pair of garden gloves, a bucket, a vacuum cleaner, a power strip, nails, an egg box or a colored coffee pot, objects of all the supermarket's covetousness, amaze him as much.Attracted by an ancestral technique, revisited in particular by the German expressionist group Die Brücke, David Delesalle is particularly well known for wood engraving. To remove material, he uses both the router or the chainsaw, for their "ripping" and "biting" side, and wood chisels, more traditional. This notion of destruction becomes the very principle of creation.The use of large formats often approaching two meters in David Delesalle's work adds an unusual presence to the objects. By confronting the global and the detailed, the playful and the serious, he disturbs our perception of what is in the realm of art and what belongs to daily life. In life size, he captures everyday life, the simplest, the most banal, both trivial and wonderful.Since 2008, David Delesalle has been making a series of engravings on toys, from scooters to tricycles to Playmobil. The artist engraves endless pirates, clowns and knights like a collection of family portraits. If the traditional technique reassures, the motif challenges, provokes, and propels the viewer into the excesses of the contemporary world.David Delesalle exhibits regularly, mainly in France, and he has a string of solo and group exhibitions.