Internet Magazine for Indipendent Travellers – January 2010
GUALTI
Supposing Peggy Guggenheim with her family of loyal four-legged friends hadn’t moved to another – happier – art scene, she probably would have bought everything on offer at the small Gualti shop. What’s more, the designer would have certainly joined the selected group of her favourites; it would be his surreal jewellery the patroness would choose for her bohemian parties on the terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. The small, completely white shop is nothing short of a dream oasis: jewellery sculptures made of resins and whatever high-tech materials Gualtiero Salbego have found suitable for the material manifestations of his creative dreams; brooches, rings, necklaces… Light as air and transparent, they seem capable of floating in the air. And yet the seeming fragility is but an illusion; the jewellery is actually quite tough and resilient. The artist describes the surreal, nature-inspired shapes as an extension of the limited human body. Shawls and capes are recent additions to the Gualti collection: sculptural works of art of accordion pleated taffeta or organza – or a boiled wool cape interspersed with tiny steel wires reminiscent of the lagoon waves or a giant jellyfish… The collection features silk evening shoes (available for individual ordering).
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