The Art Vault is a new, dedicated digital exhibition space globally accessible on the Kovet.Art website, curated by emerging guest curators, and showcasing exciting collectable art. With this series you can discover a fresh curatorial perspective every month.
Kovet.Art wishes to solidify The Art Vault as a foundation for an ecosystem of collectors, art advisors, interior designers, and art lovers to source exquisite art, discover their next investment at an accessible price point, and be inspired and provoked. Our debut exhibition New Futures Digital brings the voice of rising emerging artists and student curators to an international stage.
This is a digitally accessible space in which collectors, interior designers and art advisors can browse a wide variety of high calibre emerging art. Launching on December 9th, The Art Vault will bring New Futures Digital to the public; a virtual exhibition aiming to bring artwork by recently graduated artists and curated by emerging curators to the international stage.
The Art Vault is a new dedicated digital exhibition space globally accessible on Kovet.Art’s website, curated by exciting emerging and guest curators showcasing some of the most exciting collectible, emerging art. By collaborating with the best fine art institutions in the UK and student and guest curators, Kovet.Art wishes to solidify The Art Vault as a foundation for an ecosystem of collectors, art advisors, interior designers and art lovers to source exquisite art, discover their next investment and be inspired. The Art Vault is fully accessible via Kovet.Art website but you can also sign up for an art consultation with a team of experts.
New Futures Digital brings the voice of rising emerging artists and emerging student curators to an international stage.
CSM Focus and Slade School of Fine Art will be followed by Royal College of Art, curated by Junyao Chen and Xu Yang, on 3 March 2021. Each part of the series of the exhibition will focus on one university per month, exclusively available for sale on the website via Kovet.Art’s Art Vault curatorial archive. The artworks will be available for sale on Kovet.Art website for a period of five months per university.
New Futures Digital
New Futures Digital: slade FOCUS
Curator’s Statement
A note from Slade curator Victoria Cantons
“Where something as innocent as painting should have created such a stir.” – Edvard Munch
“Painting is not innocent, painting is not simple, painting is like splitting the atom, completely and if you understand about the power of art and the power of painting and creativity you know that you can move mountains with it.” – Tracey Emin. Art is not about decoration or matching the curtains or the carpet. Art can be shocking. Art is exciting. Art is a serious thing! As artists we play in the studio, as it is through play that we can find our way to making our work, but all that play is there to create something profound and poetic. Deep in the annals of ancient history, there’s a story of the origin of painting, also known as The Dawn of Portraiture. This refers to the myth of the 'Corinthian Maid', Dibutades, who drew around her lover’s shadow on a wall in order to preserve his image as a memento while he was away. Pliny the Elder recounted this poetic explanation of the origin of painting. Out of this innocent action art grew.
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas.
Dibutades’ line opened up an idea to an audience and equally the works on display here. Whilst they meant something to the artists when they were being made, now they open ideas to us as we come to look at them. And we have the opportunity to delve in to conversations with the work and explore our futures, our boundaries, the language of truth, and all our secrets and lies. We can, through these works, discover who we are.
