CORVO, MARCO
Biography
Born in Milan, Italy (1966), Marco Corvo is an artist, photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He studied filmmaking and cinematography in Milan at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti and at Ipotesi Cinema di Ermanno Olmi, near Venice.
He has exhibited work in galleries in the USA, including the Center for Visual Art of Metro State University, Denver; Walker Fine Art, Denver; and Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles; as well as internationally in galleries in Milan and Geneva.
Using a large format camera and a 19th-century photographic process, Marco creates images that explore our contemporary experience of the passage of time. Marco is Interested in the destabilizing effect that the high-speed digital deluge has on our bodies, our sensory perception and our social life. Through the use of an inherently slow antique photographic process in his practice, Marco strives to bring to life rituals and rhythms which reestablish a sense of duration, narration, and history – slowing time, creating resonance, and restoring meaning to a space devoid of it.
Marco has lived for the past twenty years in a mountain cabin in a National Forest outside Boulder, Colorado. The nature surrounding the cabin, and the mountain community nearby, have become an introspective and contemplative environment that inspires the artist to create his images. Within his mountain community, Marco has recently exhibited in an historic barn is body of work entitled impermanence and shot a brief documentary about it. This transformative experience was the seed that brought to life limonàia, Marco’s non-profit, non-permanent art museum and kitchen, that borrows its name from a specific kind of greenhouse that housed lemon trees since the renaissance. limonàia, is an experiment to reimagine the museum, build a resonant community, and strengthen our connection with the land, with the social function of resisting cultural homogenization; a platform for critical experimentation to “grow" healthy art and food, and to produce culture.
For more information on this work, go to https://www.marcocorvo.com.