Agnieszka Dellfina and Thomas Dellacroix are two artists working and living together. They combine Thomas’s interest for history with Agnieszka’s fascination with human nature. Their joint projects deal with subjects like fame, image, identity and originality in context of collective memory, popular culture and mass medial manipulation. 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.

Their cooperation spans from photography, photomontage, painting and collage, to video installation, music, and performance. They also developed as well the still largely unknown LenticularS, similar to holograms digital technique, where pictures put in layers and covered with a prismatic perplex sheet, create a video-morphic sequences.

They belong to the group of contemporary artists working for world peace. Some of their images are featured in several books including: ” Designs of dissent” and “Peace Signs”.
The artists have worked for the benefit of several human rights organizations including: Amnesty International, Red Cross, World Childhood Foundation, The International Research Foundation for Children’s Eye care, S.O.S Group, and Bris – Children’s Right in Society.

Thomas  Dellacroix

(born 1953 in Stockholm, Sweden under the name of Dellert-Bergh)

“In my art I do not try to explore the spectra of artistic colours, nor the density between different materials or surfaces, and I find no interest in playing with perspective or form. My passion lays in a total different artistic expression -my fascination for the playfulness within trends and “isms”, and the gap between fame and mis-fortune. Although my art often takes a recognisable form, it never strives to copy- to the contrary. After the first impression when coming across any of my works, you will find a playful and intellectual dialog with different artists and art movements of the past. By using a well-known language of expression I bridge the familiar of the past with the unknown of the present.”

 Thomas Dellacroix

Thomas  Dellacroix has for the last twenty years been working with various art forms. He has had more than 50 exhibitions in and around Europe and the United States, and is represented in museums as well as official and private collections all over the world including the Absolut Vodka Collection.
His visual art spans from painting, collage, junk sculpture, to photography, photomontage, video installation, as well as poetry and music. He has designed costumes and sets for theatre and television, book covers, opera posters and record sleeves.
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 puts a lot of attention to accuracy and truthfulness of his art works. Tirelessly, for years he has been collecting newspaper clippings with apocalyptic headlines, and fetish memorabilia from the last century to build the backbone of his documentary art form. He also incorporates sound and video collages that give direct links to the historical episodes that the art pieces are depicting.
During his early years as an artist working and living in New York, he moved in the same circle as Jean Michael Basquiat, and Keith Haring.  His friendship with the legendary Pop-artist Andy Warhol gave way to mutual inspiration. Warhol Camouflage works where inspired by Dellert’s early prints. This in exchange resulted in a series of Thomas’ silk-screens, 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 aware Sweden, exchanged Warhol’s fascination for glamour and beauty with real life. He used a flashy pop art language depicting dramatic historical events.
Throughout the long years of his career, Thomas has been living in many cities including Stockholm, Paris, New York, Antigua (West Indies), Stuttgart, London & Barcelona.  He now has moved back to his beloved Paris

In 2001 he started a close collaboration with the female artist Agnieszka Dellfina.  That’s when he decided to change his name to Dellacroix.

 

Agnieszka Dellfina

( born: 1974, Warsaw, Poland)

"I’ve always had a fascination for the psychological aspects of life, the reason behind every deed, the definition of the truth.  I constantly analyse the border between subjective and objective; individual and collective; illusion and reality”. 

Agnieszka Dellfina

Agnieszka Dellfina ( born:1974, Warsaw) is a visual artist.
As an adolescent she was an elite gymnast. In 1999, she graduated with a Masters Degree in Marketing and Management from the Economics Department of Warsaw University. During her last two years, 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 the established venues. She has collaborated with major television channels and fashion magazines. 
She has designed as well, posters and record covers.
To continue her career Agnieszka moved to London.  While working as a freelance designer she met Thomas. They instantly started an intensive collaboration leading to exhibitions of photography, photomontage, lenticulars, sculpture, video installation and performance.

Since 2001 they work together.