DEL RE Marco

Marco DEL RE, born in Rome on 21 April 1950 and died in Paris on 23 November 2019, is a contemporary Italian engraver and painter. During the 1960s, Marco Del Re studied classically at the European School in Brussels and came into contact with Belgian painters who met Place de l'Agora where he exhibited his first works. In 1970, when he returned to Italy, he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture of Rome and founded with Bruno Mazzali and Rosa Di Lucia the theatre company "Il Patagruppo". During a tour through Milan, he met Arturo Schwarz, poet, publisher, gallerist and smuggler of surrealism in Italy. In 1973 his engraved papers were exhibited on the occasion of a group exhibition at Galerie Schwarz. In 1974, Marco Del Re made his first personal exhibition, prefaced by a text by Arturo Schwarz, in Turin at the La Bussola gallery. Uniric paintings are presented with scratched papers. From then on, numerous exhibitions are held throughout Italy and Europe. In 1988, he made his first original lithography for the exhibition "Italian Artists" at the Maeght Gallery. During the 1990s, his works were circulating internationally, notably in Turkey, Japan, Korea, the United States... Del Re also began a research project in the Maeght gallery's etching workshops: plates and cuts, carpets and tapestries. The monotype allows it variations on the same theme: the large monochrome nudes in red, blue, yellow and black pay homage to the Roman statuary, Italian primitivism is also present in the suite And In Arcadia Ego, it also addresses the themes of still life with French interior and bestiary with the series Les garneries. In 2000, Marco Del Re began a collaboration with the istanbouliote artist Selma Gürbüz, which continues through other exhibitions in Barcelona, Istanbul and Paris. Both artists make a long series of "four-handed" painted works. In 2007, he was invited by the TS1 Contemporary Art Center in Beijing, which exhibited his recent works on more than 1,500 m2, in the same year, a personal exhibition was organized by the Yan Club Art Center in Dashenzi, Beijing's artistic district. In 2009, he exhibited his works on paper and oil on canvas at the Dumonteil Gallery in Shanghai. In February 2011, he made two series of pastels illustrating the Mediterranean interiors paying tribute to Matisse. They are part of the exhibition of drawings that takes place in February "Cosmogonia and landscapes", an exhibition then exported to Abu Dhabi, as part of the book fair of the Arab World. At the end of his life, he lived and worked in Paris.