Chiara Corbelletto
An Ocean of Silence

Chiara Corbelletto is a prominent Italian New Zealand sculptor. Her work has an abstracted futuristic style and explores philosophic, scientific and artistic concepts of ‘space’. An Ocean of Silence charts this investigation of ‘space’ through several sculptural series from the past decade. This survey describes Corbelletto’s distinctive style, reflects the progressive nature of her practice and emphasises one of her primary concerns: the complexities that may arise from fundamental simplicity.

Anna-Marie White
Curator

“What is an ocean of silence?  To me, it is the immense continuum of space that in one direction expands into the cosmos and in the other direction compresses into the void.  In this spectrum of space, our position appears to be middle range.  Evolution has optimised our physiology for the perception and experience of space at the level that we occupy.
Space has been a fundamental and recurring theme in my work; from interior space to infinite space. Space is the conceptual environment where I  research and position my work as an artist”. 

Chiara Corbelletto 2011.