Coeur., 2012

Delphine Montebello  

Born in Aix en Provence, Delphine Sales Montebello comes from a family of artists.

Upon completing her studies at the Académie Julian (ESAG), she collaborated on the sets for The Night Before Day, by Bob Wilson, inaugurating the opening of the Opéra Bastille.

Fascinated by nature, oil painting and drawing became privileged forms of expression that Delphine Montebello applied in each field: painting, design, architecture, cinema... The hybrid and colorful mode of expression that she developed intrigued Roland Topor, Christian Lacroix, Agnès b whom she advised, Stephane Plassier, Serge Gainsbourg, Pierre Passebond who commissioned her and bought her works.

At 21, Delphine Sales Montebello creates “stories in volumes,” installations and scenographies for Maison Porthault, as well as for other prestigious brands.

At the request of Paris Musée, she designed a limited series of objects: a collection of 9 egg cups, boxes and small pieces of furniture in the shape of oviparous animals.

Creates logos and posters for major film distribution companies, notably for film director Patrick Grandperret; subsequently writes film scripts and invents narrative concepts such as “conditional photographic sung poetry”.

Encouraged by Roland Topor, Delphine Sales Montebello directed two short films from a series of seven entitled "Réglement de Contes Philosophique" (Philosophical Tale Rules). A silent poetic film bordering on comedy, synthesizing her relationship to the unsaid, to absence, where all silent thoughts make so much noise.

Collaborates with Arthur H, always with the same need to recreate a space, to probe a material.

Exhibits in various galleries in France and abroad. His paintings deal with enigmatic, ironic, absurd, and anachronistic subjects; between abstraction and figuration.