BIO

Marco Balbi Dipalma, performer and artist. He holds a Master’s degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Bologna; a degree in socio-cultural education from the University of Bologna; and has completed advanced training in contemporary archiving at the Central State Archives in Rome. He studied and worked with Maestro D. Pasquali in theatre and film acting, directing, improvisation and voice work. For 18 years, he worked in the ‘paratheatre’ of R. Mirecka, an actress at J. Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

The Maestra introduced him to the Teatr Laboratorium training programme, in particular the physical exercises and the creation of ritual performance pieces. Marco Balbi Dipalma has had various experiences of traditional rituals and meditation, which led him, in 2021, to embark on a new exploration of ritual performance arts. In 2021, he began exploring ritual performance art. Since 2022, his research has focused on ritual video performance art and subsequently on photography and oil painting. Since 2025, he has been an artist at the CSA Farm Gallery in Turin. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

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.