Bio

Foto Marvellini is the collective fouded by Andrea and Carlo Marvellini, based in Milan (IT). Friends for decades, they started their first joint artistic project in 2011, sharing their cultural interests, as well as their respective preferred techniques (Andrea the installations, Carlo photography). In the project they embody two brothers, descendants of a legendary family of Milanese photographers, the Marvellini family, from which also derive their pseudonyms. Foto Marvellini is a loving tribute to photography from the 19th century to the beginning of 20th. With perturbing language, somewhere between the familiar and the fantastic, the collective declines the theme of the 'fake' in photography, plays with the absurd, celebrates past techniques, creates credible ancestors and faithful post-mortems. With their deliberately "deceptive" works, Foto Marvelli invites the viewer to remember that images in general, by nature, trigger and shape his emotions and his understanding of the world. The limited edition fine-art works are produced on baryte paper printed in darkroom, often treated with a chemical processes that antique the supports without affecting the silver salts of the support. Of some subjects they also produce multiples ("Marvellini readytohang"), but always mounted in original vintage frames. - Main festivals and fairs: Centrale Fies Performing Art Festival (Trento), Fotoleggendo (Rome), The Others Fair (Turin), Photoshow (Milan), Set Up Art Fair (Bologna), Festival del Novecento (Pescara), Orticolario (Cernobbio, CO), Arte Cremona 2019, ArtVerona 2022, MIA 2023 (winners New Post Photography Award). - Collaborations with galleries and institutions: Galleria RB Contemporary (Milan), Spazio Label 201 (Rome), Zaion Arte Contemporanea (Biella), BI-BOx (Biella-Bologna), Bedford Gallery (Walnut Creek, California and exhibition tour in 9 states of the USA), Archives et Bibliothèque Départementales des Bouches-du Rhône (Marseille, FR), LABottega (Marina di Pietrasanta, Lu), UMA Gallery (Novara).