Dellacroix & Dellfina Biography

Thomas Dellacroix (Stockholm, Sweden, 1953 - )

Agnieszka Dellfina (Warsaw, Poland, 1974 - )

• All characters on pictures apart from children are portrayed by the artists,
• All photographs, sets, costumes and make-up are done by the artists
• All situations are re-enacted

Agnieszka Dellfina and Thomas Dellacroix are two artists working and living together. They combined Thomas's interest for history with Agnieszka's fascination with human nature. Their joint projects deal with subjects like fame, image, commercialism world conflicts and mass media. By re-enacting different personalities and historical events they created their own Utopian world, where they balance on the thin border between reality and illusion.

They have been exhibiting all over Europe, and have attracted the attention of many art connoisseurs, curators, newspapers, magazines and TV channels.

They are pioneers of a still largely-unknown LENTICULAR technique (prismatic, optically moving images), achieving astonishing results.

Their photography-based lenticular works are rapidly rising in price on the international market, selling for up to 5000 euro in contemporary art auctions.

They belong to the group of contemporary artists working for peace. Their anti-war exhibit was inaugurated at the Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona -March 2003. Some of these images are now featured in several books including: "Designs of dissent" and "Peace Signs." This book has received the prize "Premio Ciutat de Barcelona de Diseño 2003."

The artists have worked for the benefit of many human rights organizations including: Amnesty International, Red Cross, World Childhood Foundation, The International Research Foundation for Children's Eye care, Smiley World Association, and Bris - Children's Right in Society.

For the last twenty years, Thomas DELLACROIX (Dellert) has been working in various art forms such as painting, collage, sculpture, as well as music, video and poetry. He has had over 50 exhibitions in and around Europe and the United States, and is represented in many museums, as well as official and private collections all over the world including the Absolut Vodka Collection. His works were sold at auction houses like Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonham's & Bukowski's.

His visual language is direct, sometimes even violent, but always with a humanistic approach. Although he feels a need to explore the darker side of mankind, he uses irony and humour as his tools. In this tradition most of his art deals with the history of the 20th century.

Thomas pays attention to the accuracy of his art works, for example making sure that all the collage material always consists of the original clippings from the period the collage is depicting.

During his early years as an artist working and living in New York, he moved in the same circle of artists as Jean Michael Basquiat, and Keith Haring. His friendship with the legendary Pop artist Andy Warhol gave way to mutual inspiration--Warhol's Camouflage prints were inspired by Dellert's early prints. This, in turn, resulted in a series of silk-screens by Dellert, based on the Warhol technique. Even though some of their works look similar at first glance, looking closer one realizes that Thomas, brought up in a socially- conscious Sweden, exchanged Warhol's fascination with glamour and beauty for real life. He used a flashy Pop art language of expression, printing dramatic political events.

In 2001 he started collaboration with a female artist Agnieszka Dellfina. In this period he decided to change his name to Dellacroix.

Agnieszka DELLFINA is a visual artist.

As an adolescent she was an elite gymnast representing her country internationally. In 1999, she graduated with a Masters Degree in Marketing and Management from the Economics Department of Warsaw University. During her last two years there, she attended Warsaw Collage of Fine Art and Design, where she completed a diploma as a Fashion Designer and a Stylist.

She started her career in Poland as a fashion designer, stylist and make-up artist. She has presented her haute couture and ready-to-wear collections in many different fashion contests as well as group and individual shows at established venues. She has collaborated with major television channels and fashion magazines. She has also designed fabrics, posters and record covers.

To further her career, Agnieszka moved to London. She met Thomas while working as a freelance designer and they instantly started an intensive collaboration leading to exhibitions of photography, photomontage, sculpture, video installation and performance.

They work under the banner of "Dreamteam".

Shows and Events

Dellfina & Dellacroix Shows, Events and Bibliography

December - Miami Art Fair, USA

August - "Transphotographiques", photo festival, Gdansk, Poland

May - "Working class hero is something to be", Avesta art biennale, Verket- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweden

May - "Art -DC", Washington Convention Centre. USA

April - "X-Posed", Utstallningssalongen, Stockholm, Sweden

January - "Self portraits of others", Sundsval photo museum, Sweden

November - "IS ART DEAD? - a necrophilic celebration of immortality", Deborah Zafman Gallery, Paris

Contemporary Art Fair, Gothenburg, Sweden

Group show at the Fahnlaes Gallery, Gothenburg Sweden

October - "Diptychs", M2N gallery, Paris

September -"X-POSED", Marcel Strouk, Rive Gauche gallery Paris, France

"RAW GOO", group show at Deborah Zafman, Paris, France

"We have secrets too", group show at M2N Gallery, Paris, France

"Personne/Personalite", group show at M2N Gallery, Paris, France

Group show in the O.D.E.A gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

August -"Don Giovanni", sets for the Mozart opera by Folkoperan Stockholm, Sweden

May - "Transphotographiques" International Photo Festival Lille, France

2006

December - "Self portraits of others", Gallery de Suede, Paris, France

October - "Picture it!", Gallery de Suede, Paris France

May - "Reality & Illusion", Gallery Lisarte, Stockholm, Sweden

April - "Reality & Illusion", Gallery Fahlnaes, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Sweden

March - "Art Paris", Grand Palais, gallery Rive Gauche, Paris, France

January - "Works on reality and illusion", Picassomio Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2005

September-¨Foto¨magazine,Polish edition; cover and reportage

July- ¨Foto¨magazine, Scandinavian edition;cover and 18 page interview

June- ¨the Design of Dissident¨- published by Milton Glazer and Mirko LLic, Rockport. Socially and Politically driven graphics from 1960 until now

April- ¨Relacje¨, Poland,cover and reportage in cultural magazine

February - "Fake-Fact-Fantasy", Cafe Opera, Stockholm, Sweden

January - Auction for the victims of Tsunami, organized by Bukowski's Auction House and Red Cross; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

January - E-mergency, Smiley World Association & Who's Next, Porte de Versailles, Paris, France

2004

December - Upp Art, Paris, France

December - "Metamorphosis", multimedia exhibition, Paris, France

November - Hype Gallery, group show, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

November - Les Inattendus, International Contemporary Art Fair, Espace Charenton, Paris, France

September - Metamorphosis, photoexhibition at cafe Les Deux Magots, Paris, France

August - Cow Parade book issue, Stockholm, Sweden

June - Cow Parade, Stockholm, Sweden

May - Third International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland

May - "Peace Signs" inauguration Vernissage, and auction, Los Angeles, USA February- "Peace Signs" inauguration Vernissage, and auction, London, February- "Welcome to new China", multimedia exhibition, Paris, France February- "Peace Signs" inauguration Vernissage, and auction, Frankfurt, Germany

2003

December - "Eyemazing" international photo magazine issue nr 1, the cover and the extensive interview

December - FAD, Barcelona, Spain

November- "Cartels contra una Guerra"-peace book by J.Mann

October - "Cafe des Lettres", Paris

September - Jijm Heynes, Paris

March - "Arte contra la Guerra", Barcelona

March - Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2002

July - Bricklane Gallery, London

June - Immendorf Studio, Dusseldorf

November - Vienna Art Fair, Austria

May - Studio Utopia, London

2001

December - Studio Utopia,

September - DAM (Digital Art Museum), Berlin

Thomas (Dellert) Dellacraoix

One Man Shows

2004 - August Strindberg Manifest, Confidencen, Stockholm, Sweden

2002 - Vienna Art Fair, Austria - Soho House, London, England

2001 - Galerie Gegenwart, Wiesbaden, Germany - Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden

2000 - Erotic Art Fair, London, England - Studio Utopia, London, England - Alan Baxter Gallery, London, England

1999 - Alan Baxter Gallery, London, England - International Holocaust Conference at the Culture House, Stockholm, Sweden

1996 - Connoisseur Gallery, London, England

1994 - Kultur Huset, Stockholm, Sweden - Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

1990 - Kotka Town Hall, Finland - Atelier 4, Stockholm, Sweden

1989 - World Trade Centre, Stockholm, Sweden - Rydals Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden

1988 - The Private Bank Gallery, New York, USA

1987 - Swedish-American Historical Museum, Philadelphia, USA - The Strindberg Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

1986 - Automation House, New York, USA - Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden - James Baker Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA

1985 - Erotic Art Expo, Paris, France - Solna Kultur Hus, Sweden

1984 - Gallery Eric Skoglund, Stockholm, Sweden

1983 - Gallery Puckeln, Stockholm, Sweden

1982 - Lucky Strike Gallery, New York, USA - Bonlow Gallery, New York, USA - Gallery SE Banken, Stockholm, Sweden - Gallery Tooth, Balsta, Sweden - Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden

1981 - Gallery Fredrikson, Stockholm - Svenska Massans Konstsalong Gothenburg

Thomas (Dellert) Dellacroix

Group shows

2004 - "Salon de Printemps", Swedish Club, Paris

1993 - Millesgarden, Stockholm, Sweden - Athenaeum, Helsinki, Finland

1992 - Norrkopings Konst Museum, Sweden

1991 - Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden - Prins Eugens Waldermarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden

1989 - The Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, USA

1985 - The Post Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Collections

The Absolut Vodka Collection, The Heinz Incorporate Collection, Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, The Royal Castle, Stockholm, The royal Court Theatre Conficencen, Stockholm, Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington DC., Anne Frank Touring Exhibit Collection, Secom-Art Collection and many private collections.