1991年生于法国佩里格，现工作居住在巴黎。
黛安·达尔-普拉的绘画探索了我们在生活中收集的某些物品与我们之间的关系与仪式感。达尔-普拉天生迷信：她审视物质财富对于人类内在平衡的影响，也试图探索前者如何定义人类的身份地位。在其作品中，艺术家指出了物质财富的二元性：虽定义了我们与我们的日常习惯，又有足以将人类吞没的能力。
达尔-普拉的作品以大型绘画为主，她创造的人物由各种各样的物体和形态构成，被赋予了某种独特的整体性。油彩颜料固有的体积感更强调了融合的形式。然而，艺术家对清冷色调的运用和对半透明纺织品的喜爱，加上流畅的笔触和对纹理的细节处理，抵消了形式在画面中的权重，将作品拉回完美的平衡与和谐。黛安·达尔-普拉的绘画在美学和主题选择上是绝对现代的，同时却有一种永恒感。画中人物如同古典雕塑一般，通过油画媒介结合精妙的画法，令人联想起从油画史到对艺术家有深刻影响的文艺复兴大师们。当呈现其完美平衡的作品时，达尔-普拉鼓励我们从作品的陈列中得出自己对作品叙事性的判断。
Born in Périgueux, France in 1991, currently lives and works in Paris.
Dal-Pra's paintings delve into the rituals associated with and sustained by the objects we collect throughout our lives. By nature, she is superstitious, questioning the degree to which our material possessions influence our inner equilibrium and define our identities. In her body of work, the artist highlights the dual nature of our possessions: while they have the potential to engulf us, they also shape our habits and selves.
Working primarily on large canvases, Dal-Pra imbues her sculptural figures with a monolithic presence, constructed from an array of objects and monumental bodily forms. Her choice of oil paint further enhances the amalgamated forms, as oil paints naturally add depth and volume. However, her subtle and tonal colour palette, coupled with her manipulation of translucency in textiles, along with smooth, imperceptible brushwork and intricate texture descriptions, counterbalances the weightiness of the forms, restoring the works to a state of perfect equilibrium and harmony.
The paintings exhibit a decidedly modern aesthetic and choice of objects while retaining a timeless quality. The figures, elevated to the status of Classical statues, and the artist's preferred medium of oil, used with technical precision, establish a connection to the history of oil painting and the Renaissance painters whom Dal-Pra cites as significant influences. By presenting works finely balanced on multiple levels, Dal-Pra encourages viewers to derive their own interpretations from the juxtapositions within the narrative of the artwork.
个展 Solo Exhibitions：
2024 Inside the folds, Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2023 Dissolutions, MOSTYN Contemporary Art Gallery, Llandudno, UK
2022 Private Ceremonies, MASSIMODECARLO, London, UK
2022 Remaining Parts, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
2020 Of Course You Are, Cob Gallery, London, UK
2020 Acqua in Bocca, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
群展 Group Exhibitions：
2023 Reaar View, LGDR, New York, USA
2023 Immortelle, MO.CO. Montpelier, Montpellier, France
2022 Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
2021 Ιώ, Cassina Projects, Milano, Italy
2021 Portraiture One Century Apart, MASSIMODECARLO, London, UK
2021 The Modern Dog Painter 2, New Galerie, Paris, France
2021 Go Figure!?, Spruth Magers, Online
2021 The Modern Dog Painter, Karl Marx Studio, Paris, France
2020 12 Artists, Harper’s Apartment, New York, USA
2019 A Private Matter, LM Gallery, Milan, Italy
2019 ACS (Artists’ Collecting Society), Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
