Made in Venice – Book by European Cultural Centre
June 2017
Form pdf 76 – Page 153
Here the digital edition
GUALTI
Gualti opened his little studio for contemporary jewellery and ornaments in 1998. His workshop is a small Wunderkammer where unusual creations are arranged as a balancing act in a harmony of colors and forms, sometimes suspended in mid-air as if they were an art installation.
Gualti is a self-taught inventor of decorative shapes for the body. In his jewellery he uses many materials by mixing them through experimental techniques. He has a predilection for transparent and flexible materials such as nylon, acrylic elements, glass spheres and crystals beads.
His jewels are seemingly fragile but feather-light and easy to wear. Bracelets, earrings, brooches, collars, headpieces: the entire body is willingly captured, dressed, and transformed by these organic sculpture-jewels which he likes to call “extensions of the soul”. But in his creative universe he also loves to manipulate fabrics to create jackets, stoles and scarves with organza, satin, wool and anything else that can be wrapped around the body like a chrysalis cocoon.
