Philippe Deléglise (b. 1952) is a Swiss Postwar and Contemporary artist working in painting, engraving, and photography. He has also been active in film and performance (happenings etc.), with a special interest in sound and music. Born in Geneva, Deléglise studied from 1971 to 1976 at the École des Beaux-Arts of Geneva, and from 1972 to 1973 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He has worked as a drawing teacher in Geneva and was a founding contributor to the periodical N°Groupe, a publication that presents young generation Swiss artists. As a supporter of the Fluxus movement in Geneva in the mid-1970s, Deléglise began producing panel paintings that incorporate elements from Constructivism. His InterfÌ©érences series is inspired by the experiments developed by German physicist Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) on the propagation of sound waves in solid bodies. In InterfÌ©érences (2005), Deléglise creates a network of meanders and convolutions. Lines no longer cover the entire surface like a homogeneous grid, but they are discontinuous. The appearance of the geometric in his earlier paintings is replaced by the seemingly spontaneous patterns of incomplete grid.

In 1976, Deléglise founded the artist group Messageries Associées with Cherif and Sylvie Defraoui, Patricia Plattner, and Georg Rehsteiner. Collective works were presented at the Venice Biennale, the Fotoforum in Kassel, the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Art Institute contemporary of Los Angeles, and the Western Front of Vancouver. Together with Patricia Plattner and Aloys Robellaz, he founded Studios Lolos in 1979, a collective and multidisciplinary workshop of graphics, cinema, urban intervention and architecture. Deléglise received the Prix Manor in 1987, the Société des Arts de Genève prize in 1992, the Fondation Irène Reymond prize in 2004, and the Fondation Jacqueline Oyex prize in 2014. His works have been collected by the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève ; the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Chaux-de-Fonds, the Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier; and the Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain de Genève, among others 

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