Michel Delgado’s value as an artist keeps rising.
He is very much, as they say, a going concern; contemporary, fresh,
inventive, unique and global. And a world of sophisticated art buyers and critics are flocking to his
work with abandon, passion, and near addiction. Michel Delgado gets people talking, engaged, and
feeling alive and awake!
His body of work is astonishing, his ideas come from unrevealed truths, his life continues to compel
and amaze, and his heritage is a rich mix of many sources – his own unique vision being prime
among them.
The enormous fecundity of his image making is only matched by his innovation and magic.
Look at some of the fresh empirical data!
- Michel Delgado's campaign for new collectors and higher visibility just keeps getting more
interesting. His current Kickstarter effort was fully backed at the $6,800 goal, ten days into the
Campaign. Today, it is over 120% funded, with a month to go. The most impressive part of this
accounting is that nine of the planned 36 paintings have been pre-purchased, sight unseen.
- In addition, 1,200 people have viewed his video Chewed Up Spit Out & Forgotten and The Gum
Spotting Experience website the artist established to enliven the content and goals of the Kickstarter
Campaign has received over 3,100 hits, with 396 people subscribing to follow the project to its final
phase – a full exhibition of the Gum series.
- The Field Guide to Gum Spotting, he is also creating, promises to continue this engagement
through 2014.
For more information on The Gum Spotting Experience: http://www.gumspottingexperience.com
On Michel Delgado: http://www.micheldelgado.com
On his Kickstarter Campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gumspotting/chewed-up-spit-out-
and-forgotten-the-gum-spotting
For more information contact David Kent, Administrator, Michel Delgado (dot) com,
admin@micheldelgado.com
Images and Video available upon request.
He is very much, as they say, a going concern; contemporary, fresh,
inventive, unique and global. And a world of sophisticated art buyers and critics are flocking to his
work with abandon, passion, and near addiction. Michel Delgado gets people talking, engaged, and
feeling alive and awake!
His body of work is astonishing, his ideas come from unrevealed truths, his life continues to compel
and amaze, and his heritage is a rich mix of many sources – his own unique vision being prime
among them.
The enormous fecundity of his image making is only matched by his innovation and magic.
Look at some of the fresh empirical data!
- Michel Delgado's campaign for new collectors and higher visibility just keeps getting more
interesting. His current Kickstarter effort was fully backed at the $6,800 goal, ten days into the
Campaign. Today, it is over 120% funded, with a month to go. The most impressive part of this
accounting is that nine of the planned 36 paintings have been pre-purchased, sight unseen.
- In addition, 1,200 people have viewed his video Chewed Up Spit Out & Forgotten and The Gum
Spotting Experience website the artist established to enliven the content and goals of the Kickstarter
Campaign has received over 3,100 hits, with 396 people subscribing to follow the project to its final
phase – a full exhibition of the Gum series.
- The Field Guide to Gum Spotting, he is also creating, promises to continue this engagement
through 2014.
For more information on The Gum Spotting Experience: http://www.gumspottingexperience.com
On Michel Delgado: http://www.micheldelgado.com
On his Kickstarter Campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gumspotting/chewed-up-spit-out-
and-forgotten-the-gum-spotting
For more information contact David Kent, Administrator, Michel Delgado (dot) com,
admin@micheldelgado.com
Images and Video available upon request.
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Growing up in Senegal, on the west coast of Africa, life and art shared the same space. They were
indistinguishable. As a young boy in Dakar I learned that art is the tool I have for a direct and honest
conversation with my own heart.
Art always has been my rescuer, my liberator – creatively, emotionally, spiritually. I’m a self-taught
painter, able to create in any media, always painting work that is straightforward and personal, work
coming from a place within me that is constantly loud and growing.
As a visionary artist, I fill my canvases with intense and basic colors, crisply painted shapes, and
meticulous detail. I make work without conventional representational techniques; my work is free of
metaphor, irony, and paradox. I paint straightforward narratives, stories of my journey and memories
of everyday experiences.
Everything I create and paint comes through my relationship with the world around me, my direct
response to my fantasies, my wonder and my spiritual growth. No journey in my life remains as
straightforward as painting.
indistinguishable. As a young boy in Dakar I learned that art is the tool I have for a direct and honest
conversation with my own heart.
Art always has been my rescuer, my liberator – creatively, emotionally, spiritually. I’m a self-taught
painter, able to create in any media, always painting work that is straightforward and personal, work
coming from a place within me that is constantly loud and growing.
As a visionary artist, I fill my canvases with intense and basic colors, crisply painted shapes, and
meticulous detail. I make work without conventional representational techniques; my work is free of
metaphor, irony, and paradox. I paint straightforward narratives, stories of my journey and memories
of everyday experiences.
Everything I create and paint comes through my relationship with the world around me, my direct
response to my fantasies, my wonder and my spiritual growth. No journey in my life remains as
straightforward as painting.