about 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.

recent[+]upcoming

May 10th– June 24th, 2007
'still/moving', sound installation with Sofia Bustorff (video),
CCNOA, Brussels, BE

May 20th, 2007
Concert, in the context of 'orbis pictus', with Jennifer de Felice (voice, electronics) and Jaroslav Koran, Brno, CZ

April 26th, 2007
Concert, in the context of 'orbis pictus', with Michal and Jaroslav Koran (Orloj Snivcu), Prague, CZ

April 14th, 2007
A Concert by Irena and Vojtech Havlovi (Viola da Gamba/Cello) and Michael Delia (Mbiras and other Homemade Instruments), Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, USA

(no joke!) April 1st, 2007
Concert with Phill Niblock + Katherine Liberovskaya (live video) @ SHARE, Reboot, New York, USA

March 14th - April 29th, 2007
"kalimba phone v2" for 'orbis pictus'
group exhibition, Czech Museum of Music, Prague, CZ

January 10th, 2007
framework by _murmer, broadcasted at resonance.fm and archived here

January 5th, 2007
Videos from a Wet Corner of the Universe - seven (video)artists present ten videoworks at Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, USA