Marco Del Re biography

Marco Del Re was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born in Rome in 1950. In 1970, he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture and simultaneously devoted himself to photography and theater, founding, in the same year, with Bruno Mazzali and Rosa Di Lucia, the theater company Il Patagruppo. After meeting Arturo Schwarz in Milan during a theater tour, he decided to dedicate himself to painting and engraving.
His research leads him to experiment with various artistic techniques, from lithography to woodcut to monotype, and the use of many supports, from paper to fabric, from wood to ceramics, from gouache to inks.
Marco Del Re's artistic poetics is a tribute to the history of art, mythology, and literature reinterpreted with his own personal taste. The clear and decisive line that characterizes his drawing and painting is influenced by Roman statuary, primitivism, and the great nudes of the classical tradition.
In 1974, Marco Del Re held his first solo exhibition, presented by Arturo Schwarz, in Turin at the Galleria La Bussola. From that moment on, he would exhibit in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and Europe.
In 1988, he created his first original lithograph for the exhibition Artisti Italiani at the Galleria Maeght, with which he would begin a lifelong collaboration.
In 2000, Marco Del Re began a collaboration with the artist Selma Gürbüz with whom he would exhibit in numerous shows in Barcelona, Istanbul, and Paris. The two artists produced a long series of works painted with four hands.
In 2007, he was invited by the TS1 Contemporary Art Center in Beijing to exhibit his most recent works. In the same year, he organized a solo exhibition at the Yan Club Art Center in Dashenzi, the art district of Beijing. In 2009, he exhibited his works on paper and oil on canvas at the Galleria Dumonteil in Shanghai.
Marco Del Re passed away in 2019 in Paris, where he had lived and worked for over thirty years.