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Boris Tellegen

Boris Tellegen began his artistic career as a graffiti artist in the 1980s, treating the two-dimensional framework of the letter and word as sculpture. Combining this practice with his training in industrial design, he soon began creating three-dimensional works at the intersection of architecture, painting, sculpture, and installation.

The title of this painting-sculpture, 16 bits,  is taken from computer programming. Tellegen’s style always induces complex mathematics. His realizations make us reach dimensions exceeding the Euclidean geometry of the volume, the quantum theory of time and space put in equation.

“My work is about chaos among order, or order in chaos. It is perhaps a kind of random logic, which is paradoxical. (…) The ideal constraints are like borders within which you can evolve, and which push you to go deeper rather than further. The more freedom there is, the less risk you have of losing your mind.”

Biographie

Boris Tellegen est né en 1968. Il vit et travaille à Amsterdam.

FORMATION

  • 1988-1994 / Diplôme d’ingénieur en design industriel, Delft, Pays-Bas.

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES – SELECTION

  • 2018 / UnPlot, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam.
  • 2017 / Friendly takeover, commissariat en collaboration avec Daniel Hofstede, MIMA Museum, Brussels.
  • 2017 / Rietveld meets Mondrian, Mondriaanhuis Amersfoort.
  • 2012 / Stuck on the city, Prague City Gallery, Prague, République Tchèque.
  • 2011 / Kunstraum.ch, Basel, Suisse.
  • 2011 / Subduction zones, Muziekgebouw ‘t IJ, Amsterdam.
  • 2010 / Exothermic, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Pays-Bas.
  • 2007 / VHDG, Leeuwarden, Pays-Bas.
  • 2004 / CUBEX, SGP.SLAM JAM, Ferrare, Italie.
  • 2004 / 6X6, Hoogt4, Utrecht, Pays-Bas.
  • 1998 / Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France.

BOURSES ET PRIX

  • 2009 / Amsterdamprijs, Amsterdam.
  • 2004 / Boursen, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst.
  • 2001 / Prix National du Millennium, avec Maurer United Architects et Ronald van der Voet pour ‘Inconstruct’.

COMMANDES PUBLIQUES

  • 2017-2018 / Rietveld meets Mondrian, 10 sculptures de 6 m de haut réalisées dans différents matériaux le long d’une piste cyclable reliant les ateliers de Mondrian (Amersfoot) et de Rietveld (Utrecht), Pays Bas,
  • 2014 / «Huis van Hendrik», commande de Ymere, Berlage laan, Haarlem, Amsterdam.
  • 2013 / ZONE DE FAILLE \ FAULT ZONE, Palais de Tokyo (Niveau 1 – Descente Grémillon), Paris.
  • 2012 / Façade de l’immeuble, Berlagelaan, Haarlem, Pays-Bas.
  • 2011 / Statue pour Ijside.
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