THE WHITE GALLERY

Editorial Curation & Press Campaign

Editorial 01 marked the beginning of Blue Arc's editorial collection series — bringing together works from three private collections of Greco-Roman art within a single curated publication and visual campaign.

Rather than presenting each collection independently, Blue Arc selected and arranged works across the three collections to create a shared visual language and conceptual dialogue.

The resulting press kit brings together sculpture, objects and fragments from different collections, allowing them to be experienced as one editorial body.

The project established a recurring Blue Arc tradition: bringing exceptional classical works together through a single curatorial concept.

Private Collection · Greco-Roman, Syro-Phoenician & Byzantine

Digital Curation & Collection Documentation

The Red Room was a collection development project centred around a group of works spanning Greco-Roman, Syro-Phoenician and Byzantine traditions.

The project explored the relationship between objects from different periods and cultures, using digital documentation and curation to establish a cohesive visual and historical dialogue between the works.

Rather than treating the collection as a chronological sequence, the project approached the objects through material, form, cultural continuity and visual association.

THE ALABASTER LOUNGE

Editorial Curation & Press Campaign

The second edition of Blue Arc's editorial series expanded the concept beyond the Greco-Roman world, bringing together works from three private collections spanning Greco-Roman, Egypto-Roman, Western and Southern Asian traditions.

Objects from distinct cultural and historical contexts were selected and brought into a single editorial framework, creating unexpected relationships between form, material, civilisation and time.

The campaign continues Blue Arc's editorial practice of turning multiple private collections into one considered cultural narrative.

Private Collection · Greco-Roman & Neoclassical

Digital Curation & Collection Documentation

The Cantarutti Collection brings together a selection of bronze and stone works spanning Greco-Roman antiquity and the later Neoclassical tradition.

Blue Arc developed the project's digital documentation and curatorial framework, creating a visual and contextual dialogue between objects separated by centuries yet connected through their shared fascination with the ancient world.

The project focused on the character of the materials themselves — bronze, stone, surface, form and the marks of making — while establishing a coherent digital presentation for the collection.

Private Collection · Greco-Roman Antiquities

Collection Photography & Visual Documentation

The Kolhn Collection is a private collection of Greco-Roman antiquities documented by Blue Arc through a dedicated photographic and video campaign.

The project focused on creating a visual language capable of presenting the collection as a coherent body of works rather than as individual objects. Selected works were photographed and filmed for Editorial Press Campaign 02, alongside works from other private collections.

The resulting imagery forms part of Blue Arc's wider approach to private collection documentation and visual curation.

Ancient Glass · Roman & Cross-Civilisational

Collection Documentation & Curation

The Solis is a study of ancient glass, centred around a collection of Roman vessels and fragments alongside exceptional examples from other ancient civilisations.

The project explores glass through its remarkable transformation over time — where once-transparent surfaces develop radiant colours, iridescence and unexpected textures, shaped by centuries of burial, exposure and preservation.

Through photography and digital curation, Blue Arc presents the collection as a study of colour, translucency, form and time, allowing the material itself to become the subject.

Private Collection Development · Ancient & Neoclassical

Digital Documentation · Curation · Physical Presentation

Little Geta was developed for a private collector around a group of ancient and Neoclassical works connected to the figure and visual memory of Emperor Geta.

The project brought together digital documentation and curatorial development with the physical presentation of the collection.

At its centre is an ancient Roman crystal bust, accompanied by a 17th-century silverpoint study depicting the same bust.

Together, the two works create an unusual record of the same image across centuries — the ancient object itself and a later hand preserving its appearance through drawing.

Private Collection · Ancient Egypt

Collection Documentation & Digital Curation

The Becker Collection brings together a selection of ancient Egyptian works spanning the Early, Late and Ptolemaic Periods.

Blue Arc developed the collection through digital documentation and curation, creating a visual presentation that brings together objects from different periods while preserving the distinct character of each work.

The project explores the continuity and transformation of Egyptian artistic traditions across centuries — from form and material to ritual, representation and the enduring visual language of ancient Egypt.

Ancient Bust · Porphyry & Modern Intervention

Collection Documentation · Editorial Campaign

Dionysis, After the Noise centres around a striking ancient bust carved in purple porphyry, completed in its present display form with a modern yellow-marble chest. The contrast is immediate: ancient purple against modern yellow; surviving stone against a later intervention. But the most compelling part of the object is found in the damage.

The upper portion of the head bears the physical evidence of attempts to destroy it. Large sections were lost, while the lower part of the face and head survived. The project used this tension as its starting point — not presenting the damage simply as loss, but as another layer of the object's history.

The marks left by those who tried to break it became marks left by time itself.