The Corporate Vault is amassing a collection of art works that are gathering anything but dust. This Art Gallery of the new era has captured treasures, as if from secret storage, and is bringing them to light. This year begins in romantic dialogue with Bellagio, a historic village on the edge of the Lago di Como in Italy. Resident Artist Maurice Bekeart has created a collection of tesselated panels in heavily worked papers glistening with shellac and resembling articulated sheets of ancient velum traced with the geometries and motifs of a mysterious communication.
These rich Italian contributions are met by Australian painter and Sculptor Conchita Carambano whose work has been selectively gathered by the Corporate Vault to illuminate the theme of Romance, Ruins and Re Invention. A series of potent paintings on the subject of Pompeii are amongst her most contemporary and courageous. Beside these works are raised a collection of her recent sculpture which in their idiosyncratic freedom,resemble the toys of a royal child. They are playful and elegant assemblages that foretell the motifs in her paintings and gradually educate us in a new language of symbols, entirely her own.
Carambano's gorgeous oil paintings portray forms as powerful monoliths, like the torrs of Stonehenge poised in relationship and embedded in a gentille layering of pigments and seams of colour.
The Corporate Vault illuminates another artist in their February exhibition. Photographic collages by Anna Harpley embellish a perspective of European artistic culture in sumptuous and surreal fusions of fabric, stone, sky and water. Figures are poised in visionary landscapes embedded with the relics of cultural heritage exemplified by Italy and the Italians.
This exhibition and collection is surely a romantic adventure!
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