Norbert Delman
Born 1989 in Warsaw. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at Mirosław Bałka’s studio (2014), studied Fine Arts at the University College Falmouth (UK) in 2010.
Multidisciplinary artist, who works in several media (video, sculpture, installations, performance). This indecisiveness is obvious, though, because the overriding value of his work is an attempt to illustrate the anxieties and tensions experienced by himself and his peers. Experimenting curator, co-founder of Stroboskop art space in Warsaw. Recipient of Residency for a Polish Artist ESW scholarship, Edinburgh, UK 2014, InterModem Residence programme at the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts in Debrecen, Hungary 2011, and WRSW | BRLN 2016 Residence programme. Holder of scholarship of the Minister of Culture (2016).
NORBERT DELMAN
US
2019 / sculpture, mixed-media
This is a dynamic composition made mainly of plastic and foam, which are not random materials and are associated with artificial, inorganic world. In terms of form and technology of manufacturing, my work corresponds with the feeling of decomposition, change of state, transformation. My search is an insight into the future, it’s a narrative of a conflict and tensions between different corporal realities and their relation to the surroundings. It’s a form of visualization of fears that lurk on the horizon. Of the concern about whatever people will have to contend with in order to survive. I think that humankind will survive anything. Maybe not in the same number, maybe in a different form, in different surroundings, but it will survive. For the time being, this thought is more terrifying to me than the prospect of doom.
