Marco Balbi Dipalma
He trained at DAMS in Bologna, followed by a collaboration in R. Mirecka's paratheatre from J. Grotowski's Teatr Laboratorium. His research investigates the plasticity of the body, recording it in such a way as to reveal the presence of the soul.
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BIO

I'm a perfomer and video artist. I graduated in theatre studies at the Department of Art, Music and Performing Arts of the University of Bologna. In 2018, completed the advanced training course in socio-cultural educator at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Bologna. From 2001 to 2017, studied and collaborated with Maestro Dimitri Pasquali, from whom I learnt the fundamental techniques of classical theatre, cinema, voice and theatre didactics. I am a self-taught photographer and video editor. In 2004, I met Rena Mirecka. Rena Mirecka was one of the founding members and first actress of J. Grotowski’ s Teatr Laboratorium. Since 2004, I have continued to participate in the Master's Paratheatrical laboratory, becoming her assistant and finally the leader of "The Sun - The school of Rena Mirecka". I led "The Sun" from 2017 to 2022, with the support of the Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw- PL). I collaborated with Rena Mirecka for 18 years. In 2021 I have been started a new research in the field of ritual performance arts. Since 2022 I continue this research and share performative pedagogy as an independent artist. In 2022 I have been started a new video art research. In my research as a video artist, I question the self in an existential sense, starting with the plasticity of the body. Red is the colour I contemplate. The eternal Pathos of red. My videos are carnal prayers that investigate Being.

 

ARTISTIC STATEMENT

In my video art research, I question the existential phenomenological “I”, starting from the plasticity of the body. Red is the colour I contemplate. The eternal pathos of red. My videos are carnal prayers. The body shape, which arises from inner needs, colours the space with emotional tonalities, becoming open shape. Video has this peculiar capacity, to record in real time, piercing the body with light to illuminate the presence of the soul. The body is a language of glimpses and slits. The ambivalent being of presence and absence. I use the technique of reverse time, freeze, feedback loops, datamosh, to dissolve my body plasticity into a spatial self-flowing in colour, colour creating space. The videos, based on autobiographical experiences, investigate the verticality of the human being and thematise grief as a source of transformative relational and spiritual knowledge. The primary love of the performer is the focus of my investigation.

EXHIBITIONS:

16- 22 SEPTEMBER 2024- ROME FUTURE WEEK | DIFFUSISSIMA ROMA - Rome
(Italy) Regus Valiba curated by artaporter - Video: “Trasfigurazione”

12 SEPTEMBER - 8 NOVEMBER 2024 - BORGO NEI BORGHI ART EXPERIENCE
- Borgo Pio Art Gallery - curator Sveva Manfredi Zavaglia - Group exhibition-
Rome (Italy) - Video: “De profundis | Affresco | III”

7-8 SEPTEMBER 2024 - PHIYGITART 24 - rugia (Italy) - Video: “Trasfigurazione”

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2023 - FU:BAR EXPO ARTIST - Glitch art festival - online
exhibition -Video “Mirror self-portrait: Fragility”

3- 13 OCTOBER 2024- SONDRIO ART BIENNAL -Sondrio (Italy) - Video: “Tra-
sfigurazione”

SELECTED FOR PARATISSIMA 2024

 

 

 

 

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Events at Rome Art Week
2024
The Genesis of Being: Between Life, Art, and Catharsis
22-26 Oct 2024
The Genesis of Being: Between Life, Art, and Catharsis
The exhibition "The Genesis of Being: Between Life, Art, and Catharsis" seeks to explore art as a process of revelation and transformation of the self.
Free access
Exposition
Villa Lazzaroni
Via Appia 522
condivisione
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