CORVO BROTHERS
ARTIST STATEMENT
The Corvo Brothers, Marco (b. 1966, Milan, Italy) and Gonzago (b. 1968, Casper, Wyoming), digitally sculpt composite photographs from half-forgotten roadside curiosities and unrealized miracles. Their oneiric images create private, narrative iconographies and reveal the dread, wonder and myth-making that lie at the heart of familiar acts and symbols. Self-conscious staging within meticulously crafted environments as well as adherence to the rules of Medieval and Renaissance composition contend with macabre humor and enigmatic threads of story.
Although both artists studied film, they came to their joint work from separate careers: Marco an acclaimed art director of Italian advertising, Gonzago an award-winning cinematographer and film producer based in Denver. The work they have been making together since 2004 often draws from the techniques and manipulative technologies of these mass media, if only to subvert their cultural and aesthetic stability. They implement these tools in painterly expositions of intimate and uncanny realms where meaning is created by sleight of hand. They have exhibited widely in the US and Europe as well as garnered numerous awards for their work on both continents. The artists currently reside in Denver. |
EXHIBITION HISTORY
SOLO SHOWS
2013 GroundSwell Gallery, Denver, CO 2011 Metamorphosis, Walker Fine Art Gallery, Denver, CO 2011 Orphans, The Dairy Center For The Arts, Boulder, CO 2008-9 Orphans, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO GROUP SHOWS 2013 Tableaux Vivants, La Filature, Geneva, Switzerland 2012 Out Figured, Center for Visual Art - Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO 2010 Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO 2009 Preview Show, Hilary Bradford Gallery, Milan, Italy 2009 Eyes Wide Open, The 4th Wall Gallery, Dallas, TX 2009 Colorado Art Open, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO 2009 Orphans, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO 2009 Idea of Self, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2008 Album of Family Anomalies, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO 2008 Preview Show, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO 2007 Victorian Women, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO 2007 Illustration 45 West, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Best of Colorado, Denver International Airport, Denver, CO 2006 On the Edge, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2006 Zero Gravity, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO 2006 Illustration 44 West, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Melancholy Tales & Physical Phenomena, DC Gallery, Denver, CO 2004 Melancholy Tales & Physical Phenomena, Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO 2004 Among the peerless prodigies of physical phenomena, Theatre du Quirque, Denver, CO |
