ABOUT
MARCO CORVO
Born in Milan, Italy, 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.
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He has exhibited work in galleries in the US, 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.
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Utilizing a large format camera and a 19th-century photographic process, Marco creates images that explore our contemporary experience of the passage of time.​
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Marco is Interested in the destabilizing effect that the high-speed digital deluge has on our bodies, our sensory perception and our social life. ​​
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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.
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​​Shortly after moving to Boulder in 2001, Marco begun exhibiting composited photographic tableaux under the name Corvo Brothers and was represented in Denver by Walker Fine Art from 2007 to 2014. After that, transitioned to employing almost exclusively the early photographic process called collodion wet plate experimenting extensively with it for years before exhibiting again, as Marco Corvo.
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Marco has lived for the past twenty some 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 inspire the artist to create his images.
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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 documentary, has been screened at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Marco was invited to give a talk at the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture in February 2025.
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