Riccardo De Marchi, born in 1964, lives and works between his ateliers in Flaibano close to Trieste and Venice in the northeast of Italy and Parma in central-northern Italy. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice Italy till the mid 80s.

De Marchi creates holes representing presence-absence which penetrate the material to enquire its meaning, traces left by the action of the artist where individual signs become letters of a universal language or alphabet. The surfaces of his “art works”, to him, represent a kind of white page to be written on by penetrating the chosen materials like aluminium, stainless steel or plexiglas, creating a new universe of interrogation and dialogue. De Marchi’s art doesn’t want to establish nal concepts, but generate a dialectic, which involves the spectator as well as the environment where his art is located.

In 1993 he was invited to participate at the XLV International Biennale of Venice. He then exhibited at the Scultura/Architettura/ Città, IX International Biennale of Sculpture in Carrara, had a solo exhibition at the Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurnund Taxis in Bregenz, Austria, he exhibited at Arte Contemporanea Italiana-Unicredit Art Collection at the Mart in Rovereto, Themes & Variations at The Peggy Gugenheim Collection in Venice, as well as in the Fortuny Museum in Venice and The Marco Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. His works can be found in private and public collections across the world, such as in the city of Fukuroi, Japan.