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 dedicated 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 during a theater tour in Milan, he decided to dedicate himself to painting and engraving.
His research led 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 exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and Europe.
In 1988 he created his first original lithograph for the Italian Artists exhibition at the Galleria Maeght, with which he began a collaboration that would last a lifetime.
In 2000, Marco Del Re began a collaboration with the artist Selma Gürbüz with whom he exhibited in numerous shows in Barcelona, ​​​​Istanbul, and Paris. The two artists produced a long series of painted four-handed works.
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 artistic district of Beijing. In 2009, he exhibited his works on paper and oil paintings 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.