Sweet Memories

About

From Saturday May 9 until Sunday May 24 we organize a solo show with works from Miguel Delie, called ‘Sweet Memories’. The official opening will take place on Saturday May 9 from 4 pm until 7 pm. The artist will be present.

It is the first time that Miguel Delie exhibits at Jaski Gallery. He works with materials like old toys and other dumped stuff, which he combines on panels. This Belgian artist LIVES AND WORKS IN TORHOUT. HE STUDIED AT THE ART ACADEMY IN BRUGES AND THEN WENT TO WORK AS A STYLIST TO DEVELOP AND FINANCE HIS ART. SINCE FIVE YEARS, HE CONCENTRATES ENTIRELY ON HIS ARTISTIC SKILLS.

“I ADORE TRIVIAL THINGS”, DELIE STATES. “BANALITY AND CONSUMPTION HAVE BECOME A SOCIAL NORM, WHICH I EMBRACE AS AN ARTIST. MY WORK IS BASED ON DREAMS AND IMPOSSIBLE EXPECTATIONS. IT IS FLEEING FEARS AND ARISES FROM IT. I CREATE ILLUSIONS. I WANT THE VIEWER TO THINK ABOUT THE ILLUSIONS. THEY ARE MEMORIES WITHOUT COMPLEXITY , WHICH ALSO NEED TO EXPRESS JOY. A CAREFREE PAST WHERE I WANT TO PULL THE VIEWER FROM HIS DAILY PATH. HUMOR AND COLOR PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE. I WANT THE VIEWER TO BE HAPPY ABOUT IT. I TARGET IN MY WORK ALWAYS FOR ORDER AND PERFECTION IN THE CHAOS OF COLOR AND MATERIAL. IT IS AN ABSTRACT MASS OF DUMPED STUFF , BUT WITH EVERY STEP YOU TAKE CLOSER TO THIS MASS, THE STORY COMES MORE TO LIFE.”

The Artist

Miguel Delie lives and works in Torhout (Belgium). Having completed his studies at the Art Academy in Bruges he went on to work as a stylist to develop and finance his art. For the last five years, he has concentrated entirely on his art.

‘I adore trivial things,’ Delie says of his work. ‘Banality and consumerism have become the norm, and as an artist I embrace that.’ Miguel Delie characterizes his work as an exploration of dreams and impossible expectations. He is out to create illusions, memories stripped of their complexity to become expressions of joy, so allowing people to escape the worries of daily life by fleeing into a carefree past. But at the same time his work challenges us to reflect on these illusions and why we might need them.

His colourful assemblages of found objects are painstakingly assembled, a perfectly ordered construct belying the apparent chaos of colour and material. ‘It seems an abstract mass of dumped stuff, but the closer you get, the more the story comes to life,’ Delie says.