BIO

Marco Balbi Dipalma performer and artist. Master's degree in theatre studies from the University of Bologna; degree in socio-cultural education from the University of Bologna; advanced training in contemporary archiving, Central State Archives of Rome. I studied and collaborated with Master D. Pasquali in theatre and film acting, directing, improvisation and voice. I collaborated for 18 years in the paratheatre of Master R. Mirecka, actress at J. Grotowski's Teatr Laboratorium.

The Master passed on to him the training of the Teatr Laboratorium, in particular the plastic exercises and the creation of ritual performative actions. Marco Balbi Dipalma has had various experiences of traditional rituals and meditation, which led him, in 2021, to start a new research into ritual performance art. In 2021, he began his investigation into Ritual perforamce art. Since 2022, the research has focused on Ritual video art performace.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My art stems from the need to explore Being with my body, in search of the ontogenesis of Love.

My works investigate autobiographical experiences, focusing on pain as a source of knowledge and spiritual transformation. I study ritual techniques as tools to elevate personal creativity in a vertical, cathartic and existential reflection sense

Through performance, video art, photography and oil paintings, I seek to make visible the light of the soul through the plasticity of flesh. I contemplate red. The eternal pathos of red.

Action, colour and form embody existential human feelings, expressing a sense of abandonment and surrendering to Being. The body is a language of slits, revealing its own existence in silence: “Being with”.

I consider my works to be carnal prayers, seeking an instinctive relationship with the viewer to take them, through aesthetic reflection, into the depths of the soul, towards a common place present in the heart.