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Diego Delas

La lámpara del cuerpo, 2025

Photo: Roberto Ruíz

Diego Delas

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Diego Delas

La lámpara del cuerpo, 2025

Oil on canvas, artist's frame ebonized with black tea, wine, and linseed oil

252 x 197 x 4 cm

TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

In La lámpara del cuerpo (“The Lamp of the Body”), Diego Delas conjures an interior world shaped by ritual, memory, and domestic symbolism. The painting’s symmetrical structure evokes the visual logic of altarpieces, folk textiles, and architectural reliefs. Human-like figures, gestural marks, and symbolic motifs unfold across the surface like a coded anatomy—one that suggests protection, transformation, and the body as a vessel of meaning. The handcrafted frame, stained with black tea, wine, and linseed oil, reflects Delas’s commitment to material processes rooted in both craft and care.

Drawing on his background in architecture and his reflections on rural life and pre-modern cosmologies, Delas invites us to consider a world where art objects carried spiritual charge—blurring the boundaries between the sacred and the everyday.

CURRENTLY ON VIEW:

Group show: Clear, Lucid, and Awake - Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection

Curator: Chus Martínez

Venue: Exhibition at Art Sonje Center, Seoul

Date: May 9 – July 20, 2025

Related works in the collection

Diego Delas Burmese Amulets (Castillo bajo el polvo), 2024

Diego Delas La madrépora, 2025

Related program

Clear, Lucid, and Awake - Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection Exhibition at Art Sonje Center, Seoul

Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas
Breathings of the moon. Expedition, 2022

Clear, Lucid, and Awake | Public Program Art Sonje Centre, Seoul

Artists

Diego Delas