PRESS and more…

24 October 2025
IUAV University of Venice
Department of Communications and New Media of Fashion.

The brilliant Giulia Angeletti and Chiara Berti,
presented as their graduation presentation
an editorial publication of over 300 pages ( 30 x 23 cm )
focused on the history and creations of GUALTI !

editorial ( by eme e management® )
February 2025 Issue 2 – MOVIMENTO
Editor : Richie Soria,
Editor in Chief : Omar Sinsentido
Text : Sofia Mendoza

FlipBook : COLLECT

La moda puede ser muchas cosas: elegante, estructurada, predecible. Pero desde la visión de Gualti, la moda es energía pura. Aquí no son solo prendas, son sensaciones. No son telas, son corrientes de aire atrapadas en movimiento. No son diseños, son emociones en estado puro.
Desde su atelier en Venecia, Gualti no sigue reglas, las desafía. Su trabajo no cabe en etiquetas ni en categorías conocidas. ¿Minimalismo? No, gracias. Que viva el dramatismo, la fluidez y una buena dosis de magia. Sus piezas no se visten, se fusionan con el cuerpo. Anillos que parecen tatuajes líquidos, collares que flotan como si tuvieran vida propia, brazaletes que no abrazan la muñeca, la envuelven en un baile hipnótico.
Y sus prendas… Son movimiento. La organza se retuerce, se expande, respira contigo. Los volúmenes no se quedan quietos, flotan, vibran, se sacuden con cada paso. Cada capa de tela es un trazo de arte tridimencional, cada silueta parece desafiar la gravedad. Es como si el viento se hubiera quedado atrapado en la tela y se negará a soltarla.
Aquí no hay estructuras rígidas ni líneas predecibles. Sus diseños existen en un punto intermedio entre el sueño y la realidad.
Sus piezas no están hechas para ser vistas, están hechas para sentirse. Un Gualti no se usa, te envuelve.
por Sofía Mendoza

Quadro Magazine – January 2025 issue –
Available in print and digital.
NAIADE DEL BOSCOSO MARE
Photographer: Paola Francesca Barone
Wardrobe Credits: “Green Queen” Wearable Sculpture by Gualti

I am truly honored and thrilled to know
that two of GUALTI’s textile creations ( of 2005 )
are part of the collection of the
Kunstmuseum Den Haag !
( Stadhouderslaan 41, The Hague, Netherlands )

Scarf – “Sfarzosa” wrap
and
Stole – “Sontuosa” jacket/wrap

Both pieces are made
in blue/purple iridescent pleated taffeta,
handmade with love in Venice, Italy
by GUALTI

The Kunstmuseum Den Haag houses a treasure
trove comprising over 160,000 artworks.

PENG magazine – December 2024
the “RED QUEEN” sculpture pleated crinoline wrap by GUALTI
Surreal and conceptual selfportrait photo by Paola Francesca Barone

Magazine – Sunday 27 October 2024 – page 35
A trip of sighs
The bestselling novelist reveals how to rediscover the wonder of Venice
Words Tracy Chevalier
Appreciate the artisans
Venice has always been full of skilled artisans, making glassware, leather, boats, masks and paper. Many small workshops are still scattered throughout the city where you can watch the artisans at work and buy unique souvenirs, knowing that you are contributing to a precious local economy. Look out for Gualti, whose shop in Dorsoduro is full of jewellery and textiles inspired by natural forms;
Here the digital edition :
A TRIP OF SIGHS

Mercoledì 25 Settembre 2024 – pag. 33

The purple and blue “Attinia” brooch by GUALTI
on the CD cover, back and on the inner panels
of the new music project by Luca Mazzariol alias “Like The Snow” !
“The Visions of a Dream Traveller”
CD, 6-panel digisleeve, ltd. 200 copies – 13/Silentes – (S) Standa
( released on May 23, 2023 )

From the backstage of music video clip
“BLU” feat. Romina Salvadori
( excerpt ) from the new album “Sottili Polveri” by TEMPLEzONE.

“CALLIANDRA” face piece, necklace and rings by GUALTI
Hair and Make-up : Eleonora Collareda
Videomaker and photos : Giorgio Ricci

( Venice, Italy – 20 February 2022 )
Watch and listen the music video “BLU”

January 26, 2022 – Padova, Italy
Truly honored to have participated with my creations
to the recordings of some episodes of the television program “Caro Diego…2″
hosted by the famous image creator and Italian television personality,
Diego dalla Palma on Rai Premium .
Some photo stills from the video…

Travel Magazine by Citalia

Summer/Autumn 2021 – page 28 and 29

Here the digital edition : ANDIAMO!

Live Venice is a tourist information website

” DESIGN ED ELEGANZA, POTENZA E LEGGEREZZA : I GIOIELLI DI GUALTI “

di Valentina Tommasi – 11 Maggio 2021

Italian text: ” DESIGN ED ELEGANZA, POTENZA E LEGGEREZZA : I GIOIELLI DI GUALTI “

English text: ” ELEGANCE AND DESIGN, STRENGHT AND LIGHTNESS IN GUALTI’S JEWELS “

Una wunderkammer nel cuore di Venezia, a Santa Margherita, uno spazio emozionale bianco dove l’occhio vaga tra armonie di colori con la sensazione che le creazioni in mostra siano talmente leggere da fluttuare nell’aria. È il mondo di Gualti.

Gualti è il nome d’arte di Gualtiero Salbego, quarantottenne, veneziano di adozione che trascorre la sua infanzia e adolescenza in un paese di campagna nei pressi di Padova. Lì passa ore a contemplare i dettagli nel mondo naturale che parlano di micro movimenti, crescite impercettibili, sfumature, sussurri e ondeggiamenti silenziosi. Piccoli fossili, rami di arbusti, sassi, e soprattutto radici, diventano per Gualti le forme antropomorfe della natura che tanto lo affascinano e che lui lascia sedimentare nella sua memoria.

Oggi, il ricordo del lento pulsare della vita rurale unito ad un fermento creativo in costante crescita portano alla realizzazione di gioielli dallo stile inconfondibile, creazioni contemporanee che di inanimato hanno solo il materiale di cui sono fatte. Nylon, resine sintetiche, frammenti di alluminio, acrilico e vetro si intrecciano, si fondono e diventano spille, anelli, orecchini, bracciali, collane, diademi, pezzi unici che Gualti stesso ama definire “architetture senza tempo”, eleganti e leggiadre.

Un impeto creativo che non si ferma agli accessori ma dona vita anche ai tessuti: come bozzoli di crisalide, taffetà, seta, organza e lana cotta assumono le forme di sciarpe, stole e giacche che avvolgono chi le indossa con un’eleganza dal grande impatto.

Indossare un accessorio di Gualti significa entrare in sintonia con una dimensione eterea in cui profonde pulsioni artistiche si sono fuse con l’osservazione del mondo naturale nei suoi aspetti più armoniosi e delicati. Quel che ne nasce è un oggetto prezioso e unico, e l’effetto che fa una volta indossato è di improvvisa luminosità, come uno sbuffo di luce che rallegra.

Dall’atelier di S. Margherita al mondo: le creazioni di Gualti attraversano gli oceani e fanno bella mostra di sé al collo di musiciste e cantanti liriche, illuminando lo sguardo di donne fascinose che portano con sé un pezzo di Venezia.
Orari di apertura: da lunedì a sabato 10.00 – 13.00 e 15.00 – 19.00. Chiuso la domenica.

GUALTI
Dorsoduro, Rio Terà Canal 3111 – 30123 Venezia
Tel. +39 0415201731 – Mob. +39 3383375396
info@gualti.it
www.gualti.it
Facebook: gualti.venezia

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” ARTE A  VENEZIA : GUALTI E LE SUE CREAZIONI “
by Monica Gambarotto – 13 September 2020

Italian text: ” ARTE A VENEZIA : GUALTI E LE SUE CREAZIONI “

English text: ” ART IN VENICE : GUALTI AND HIS JEWELS “

Arte a Venezia: Gualti e le sue creazioni
Quando la creatività diventa arte da indossare
Desideriamo presentarvi un artista di eccezione, che ha scelto Venezia, o forse da Venezia è stato scelto, per esprimere tutta la sua creatività in opere d’arte uniche, da indossare come gioielli.
Durante una delle nostre visite guidate a Venezia potrebbe proprio capitare di passare davanti al suo atelier, ed una sosta per ammirare tanta bellezza è d’obbligo.
Carissimi ospiti, ecco a voi Gualti!

Un’infanzia difficile
Gualti nasce nei pressi di Padova e fin dalla prima infanzia dimostra una spiccata predisposizione artistica, unita ad una sensibilità unica, tanto che se ne accorge persino la sua maestra d’asilo. Ama sedersi per terra, toccare i sassi, sradicare piantine e fiori per osservarne l’essenza più nascosta, le radici.
Da grande, dice, farà l’artista, ma forse non è ancora perfettamente consapevole della grandezza del suo sogno.
Pur riconoscendo le sue doti particolari, la famiglia non lo sostiene nel suo desiderio più profondo, e a tredici anni Gualti viene mandato a lavorare in un laboratorio di ceramiche artistiche. Certo, la sua sete di arte è in parte appagata, ma l’ambiente è chiuso, gli toglie il respiro, e Gualti si sente in gabbia. Trova una via di fuga in un laboratorio in cui si reca dopo il lavoro per creare le sue opere, in particolare gioielli, di ceramica, ma anche di legno, di metallo… A casa invece crea opere d’arte con gli oggetti di uso più comune, come le posate, che pinza, piega e attorciglia: è il suo modo per conferire eternità a ciò che spesso diamo per scontato.
Continua incessantemente anche a dipingere, si occupa di fotografia, ascolta musica…
E comincia una incessante ricerca di materiali originali con cui esprimere la propria creatività: materiali inusuali, mischiati, fusi, sperimentati come in nuove magiche alchimie, resine sintetiche, fili di nylon, frammenti di alluminio, sfere di vetro incastonate, perle di vetro e di cristallo…

La redenzione: Venezia
Dopo undici anni, e dopo l’ennesima dimostrazione di chiusura mentale, Gualti dice basta e si licenzia. Disposto davvero a fare qualunque lavoro, risponde per caso ad un annuncio di una ditta di Mestre che cerca artisti. Al telefono esita, ha voglia di provare ma non sa se sarà all’altezza… dall’altro capo del telefono la voce energica di una donna gli dice che non ha tempo da perdere e che lo aspetta il giorno dopo per tre giornate di prova.
A Mestre gli si presenta la Signora Marisa, una donna caparbia, quasi mascolina, ma dalla sensibilità fuori dal comune. Marisa capisce al volo che Gualti farebbe al caso suo, ma comprende anche che il giovane ha ben altre potenzialità. Gli mette in mano un biglietto dell’autobus per Venezia e gli dice di trovare la sua strada proprio lì.
Gualti non è mai stato a Venezia prima di allora. Ed è amore a prima vista. Passeggia, osserva, si perde… sale sul Ponte dei Pugni, a Dorsoduro, e capisce: quel luogo gli sta dicendo qualcosa, lo sta chiamando.
La Signora Marisa gliel’ha detto che avrebbe riconosciuto il suo luogo magico appena l’avesse visto. La nuova avventura di Gualti comincia da qui. Se gli angeli custodi esistono, quello del giovane Gualti di sicuro si chiama Marisa.

La nuova avventura: i gioielli di Gualti a Venezia
È il 13 settembre 1998: Gualti apre il suo primo piccolissimo negozio dove espone le sue magiche creazioni. È un trionfo! Venezia e la sua gente lo accolgono con entusiasmo. Le trasparenze, i riflessi, i colori dei suoi gioielli rispecchiano Venezia, sembrano catturare l’essenza stessa della nostra magica città. La tenacia, la caparbietà, l’impegno alla fine sono stati premiati.
Assieme ai gioielli si stagliano nel bianco delle pareti anche sciarpe e stole: sembrano sculture, morbide e rigide allo stesso tempo. Quelle ondulate ricordano l’acqua e le alghe dei canali, della laguna… altro connubio perfetto.

I gioielli d’arte di Gualti oggi
Chi entra oggi nel suo negozio trova un uomo che veste di nero, in modo sobrio: non ha bisogno di far emergere la propria personalità indossando capi di abbigliamento particolari, poiché tutta la sua personalità viene esaltata dai gioielli che espone nel nuovo negozio, dall’altro lato del Ponte dei Pugni.
Qualcuno l’ha definito un alchimista, che con pozioni ed ingredienti segreti fa esplodere i colori in creazioni uniche.
Ed è il colore il vero protagonista della sua arte, quel colore che del resto è anche una delle caratteristiche principali di Venezia.
I suoi gioielli sono sempre ispirati ai fiori, alle alghe, alle bellezze della natura… lasciamo a loro le ultime battute di questo post, dal momento che sono più eloquenti di qualsiasi parola.
Se, come dice Dostoevskij, “la bellezza salverà il mondo”, un piccolo grande merito spetterà anche a Gualti.
Noi vi aspettiamo per una delle nostre visite guidate di Venezia: sarà per noi un onore portarvi alla scoperta di una Venezia incantevolmente vera, fatta anche e soprattutto di persone meravigliose e di artisti unici.

The creations of GUALTI on the CD cover and on all pages of the booklet
“Inferno e Paradiso”
by the German soprano Simone Kermes and Amici Veneziani
( released on February 2020 – Sony Classical )
Hair and Makeup by Yvonne Joseph – Photo by Dirk Bleicker

The sculptural pleated blue “SFARZOSA” wrap, the “INFLORESCENCE” earrings
and the “BRINGER OF LIGHT” headpiece by GUALTI

Preferred Hotels & Resorts – Magazine

Volume 13 – 2019 – page 32

Summer Issue 2018 – page 53

Here the digital edition

” GUALTI’S DREAMY FAIRY TALE “

by Stefania Gioia – March 9, 2018

Here the digital edition in English text

Graceful and flexible as a leaf of grass, light and evanescent as a floating bubble (he loves this similarity!), Gualtiero Salbego set foot in Venice, for the first time ever, in 1998, and since then he never left. At that time he was 26, and probably too shy to imagine his brilliant future as one of the finest artists in town.
Born and raised in a small village of Veneto countryside, Gualtiero lived in a family that considered job as a primary source and sent him to work right after the secondary school.
Artistically inclined, he got a job as a ceramist and spent the following 11 years employed in a factory where he couldn’t nurture his passion as he should have.
Still, in the spare time the boy used to work on various, personal creations, drawn and inspired by the nature around him. Extremely fascinated by features of the earth such as leaves, roots, branches, fragile filaments, striped barks, fossils and stones, he was also mesmerized by any water creatures: colorful anemones and meandering algae became part of his vivid imagination and endless creativity.
Tired of keeping his restless soul in captivity and frustrated by his limiting job, with a big effort Gualtiero decided to go against his parents’ will and discover his own life path. A few months later his revolutionary breakthrough, he was arranging his first lab in Venice: a 9 square meters of freedom and grace.
Nowadays, entering Gualti’s atelier-gallery it’s like walking into a white, fabolous Wunderkammer, where atypical jewels, along with fabric garnishments, are displayed in harmony with selected music and particular scents.
The artist thinks that these objects, being inspired by nature and destined to nature, should be chosen as instinctive extensions of the human body.
He believes his place, adorned with creations made of unusual materials such as synthetic resin, Swarovski crystal, nylon and aluminium, should be a souls’ meeting point. As a matter of fact, light and transparent, yet extraordinary resilient, these objects evoke the substance of the soul, which is aerial and unbreakable.
Jewels and accessories (although he hates this word, as none of his creations should be considered a complement, but an emotion!) can be customized according to the body and the personality of the client, who rarely leaves the atelier as a stranger. Surprised as I was, feeling the uncommon energy spread all over the place, I now just guess Gualti’s deepest secret resides in his short statement:
“I feel blessed, since my job gave me the opportunity to live a fairy tale and turn to be what I was as a child”. A free, transparent, perfect creature.

Have a Glass in Venice is proud to include Gualti atelier-gallery in its Dorsoduro off the beaten path tour, thought for who’s willing to explore Venice’s deep essence.

Guides Mondéos 2018

Venise des nouveaux créateurs
De plus en plus de créateurs, inspirés par le savoir-faire et les techniques de grande tradition, défendent l’ar- tisanat italien et affichent à l’entrée de leurs boutiques: << Ici tout est fabriqué en Italie, pas en Chine ». Tissus, cuirs, fourrures, laines, bois, etc., sont retravaillés ou assemblés pour former des créations originales, uniques, qui réinventent l’élégance italienne célébrée dans le monde entier. Gualti, située près du campo San Margherita (tél.: 041 520 17 31; www.gualti.it) est un élixir de raffine- ment (à prix abordables) avec son éclatante collection d’accessoires.

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.

The creations of Gualti on the book Metamorfosi di una vita
by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini
arte, cultura, società internazionale dagli anni 70 a oggi
publisced by Mondadori Electa – 23 May 2017 ( Historical archive of De Domizio Durini )

1 – Cover of book
2 – On page 146 – Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural wrap curled in her hands and around the bottom of her dress as a decoration by GUALTI Photo by Helenio Barbetta
3 – On page 164 – Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled wrap around the bottom of her dress as a train by GUALTI
Photo by Helenio Barbetta
4 – On page 167 – Lucrezia D. D.D. with sculptural curled wrap in her hand by GUALTI
Photo by Helenio Barbetta
5 – On page 170 – Lucrezia D.D.D. at her home in Paris with sculptural curled hat by GUALTI
Photo by Helenio Barbetta
6 – On page 172 – Part of the collection of hats by Lucrezia D.D.D. at her home in Paris…sculptural curled hat by GUALTI at the top right
Photo by Helenio Barbetta
7 – On page 182 – Lucrezia D.D.D. with pleated neck scarf by GUALTI
Photo by Alberto Navarra
8 – On page 225 – Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled wrap around the bottom of her dress as a decoration by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
9 – On page 225 – On the wall portrait of Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled hat by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
10 – On page 236 – First half of full-page of double photo Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled wrap by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
11 – On page 237 – Second half of full-page of double photo Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled wrap by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
12 – On page 244 – Lucrezia D.D.D. with moldable “Medusa” scarf by GUALTI.
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
13 – On page 240 – First half of full-page of double photo Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled hat by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
14 – On page 241 – Second half of full-page of double photo Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled hat by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
15 – On pages 240-241 – Full-page Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled hat by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
16 – On page 245 – Lucrezia D.D.D. with sculptural curled wrap twisted on her dress by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo
17 – On page 289 – Lucrezia D.D.D. at her home in Paris with sculptural curled hat by GUALTI
Photo by Gino Di Paolo

It’s an honor to see the GUALTI “Sontuosa” sculptural green wrap
immortalized in a painting !
Oil on canvas by the Italian artist Giulio Durini di Monza.
“Alessandra Marcora” 125 x 95 cm
( commissioned portrait – private collection )

Venice, 14 October 2016 – Auditorium Santa Margherita.
“Le Quattro Stagioni di William Shakespeare”
Project curated by Davide Amodio
(B. Marcello Conservatory of music in Venice)
and Alessandra Giorgi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
The actress Anna Lisa Amodio dressed and bejeweled by GUALTI for the performance
Photos on backstage by Gualti

Travel book by Giunti Editore
2016

” I mercanti (veri) di Venezia “

di Isabella Brega – fotografie di Zoe Vincenti – Aprile 2016

EFFETTI SPETTACOLARI DA GUALTI, con i suoi gioielli contemporanei in resina e vetro ispirati alla natura, ma anche stole in seta, organza, gros grain, taffetà. Vere sculture da indossare, divertenti, surreali, ma anche lineari e rigorose, gli anelli e i bracciali del padovano Gualtiero Salbego sono il frutto di una ricerca continua di forme e di materiali che si traducono in filamenti flessibili e trasparenti di varie dimensioni. Autodidatta, da 18 anni Gualti regala alle donne piccole magie da indossare.

magazine N.158 – Février/Mars 2016

Gualti . Rêver avec ses bijoux extravagants, son univers séduit les interprètes du théâtre de la Fenice.
Rio Terà Canal 3111, Dorsoduro, tél. 041/520 1731,
www.gualti.it et www.facebook.com/gualti.venezia

Libro di Isabella Campagnol 2016

Gualti, nome d’arte dell’artigiano-artista Gualtiero Salbego, è un atelier che affascina. I sofisticati gioielli, realizzati in materiali insoliti come resine sintetiche mescolate all’alluminio colorato sbocciano in autentiche sculture da indossare, filamenti luminosi che disegnano anemoni di mare, collane raggiate, inusuali cerchietti per capelli e preziose broches. Particolarissime anche le stole plissettate che abbracciano i decolleté con soffici nuvole di seta, organza e taffetà.
Gualti
Dorsoduro, rio Terà Canal 3111 www.gualti.it

January-February 2016 – page 17

Jewels and headwear that are born in a vision before emerging from the hands of Gualtiero Salbego and becoming genuine sculptures to wear. Gioielli e copricapi che nascono dalle visioni prima ancora che dalle mani di Gualtiero Salbego e diventano vere e proprie sculture da indossare.

Here the digital edition

Venice – 18 October, 2015
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venezia
“A Venetian Affair”
concert-reading inspired by Andrea di Robilant’s
with Andrea di Robilant, the orchestra Venetia Antiqua Ensemble
and the soprano Liesl Odenweller
dressed and bejeweled by GUALTI !
Staging and Scenography by André Barbe & Renaud Doucet
Photos by Renato Canciani

Video presentation

Movie poster “Elle s’en allait, semblable à la nuit”,
a short film of photographer and filmmaker Alain Zimeray,
with Annabelle Hettmann ,Tess Blanchard
and special guest a ring by GUALTI !
Making of “Elle s’en allait, semblable à la nuit” : full video
…video interview with me

Film screening at Galerie Basia Embiricos in Paris
September 17, 2015 ( exhibition )

At Galerie Basia Embiricos in Paris, September 17, 2015
Gualti with the actress Annabelle Hettmann and the “Inflorescence” ring created for the movie .

Photos by Alain Zimeray

Blog – December 20, 2014

” Last tips for your Christmas in Venice “

For those who are in Venice over Christmas, here you have a few last minute shopping tips (but they will be good also if you plan to come later in the season)
Design objects, bags, fashion jewelry and fashion… here my favorite shops
Gualti between campo San Barnaba and campo Santa Margherita in Rio Terà Canal.
I love his extraordinary fantasy in making scarves in silk and organza that you can transform in a kind of shrug or neck wear. You just need one of his pieces to be perfect for any dining, party or opening.
His jewels are extravagant and elegant at the same time.

Das Magazin der Wiener Zeitung
14 November 2014

Venedig abseits der internationalen modelabeles
Modeträume
Text & Fotos by Silvia Matras
Page 35, 36, 37

Excerpt from the article :

Theatralisch und mutig

IO sono …GUALTI – Ich bin GUALTI. So stellt er sich auf seiner Homepage vor. Als wäre er ein König, Schauspieler oder Michelangelo. Im realen Leben ist er ein bescheidener, fast schüchterner Mann, der erst im Gespräch über seine Kunst so richtig in Fahrt kommt. Was er macht, sind realisierte Träume, aus
vibrierendem Fiberglas und Glitzersteinen. Daraus entstehen Ringe, Broschen, Haarschmuck, Armbänder und Halsketten. Oder auch aus plissierten Stoffen Schals und Jacken, die aus jeder Frau eine Madonna oder eine Herzogin machen. Die dazu passenden Schuhe aus dem gleichen Stoff, mit Steinen besetzt, gehören natürlich zu dem extravaganten Outfit dazu.
„Ich lasse mich von meinen Emotionen leiten, möchte das Unsichtbare der Seele sichtbar machen. Das sind flüchtige Momente, die ich mit meinen Materialien. verfestige und vor dem Verschwinden rette.” Nicht leicht zu tragen sind seine Jacken. Die Frau muss wissen, dass sie auffällt. Aber wer Venedig liebt, der versteht diese Art von Mode. Sie erinnert an die Zeiten, als noch Dogen herrschten und die adeligen Damen in ihren kostbaren Roben das Bild einer glanzvollen Stadt reflektierten.
Man muss nicht kaufen. Schauen, probieren und ein wenig mit dem Künstler plaudern – das reicht ihm und der Kundin, um sich in dem Reich aus tragbaren Skulpturen, kühnen künstlerischen Träumen. verzaubern zu lassen. „Guarda e sogna!” (Schau und träume!), fordert Gualti.

” 36 Hours in Venice “

by Ingrid K. Williams – June 12, 2014

8 Dorsoduro Designs | 5 p.m.

…at Gualti, find wearable art like delicate leaf-shaped brooches
and statement-making pleated-taffeta wraps.

Here the digital edition

Panerai Exclusive Guide 2014
Trend Hotspot Address Book – page 80

Gualti Dorsoduro 3111
Tel. 0039.041.52.01.731
Web: www.gualti.it
A little world of fashion and design all its own at the service of feminine elegance. Fascinated by nature, Gualti fashions “his creatures”: jewellery, shoes and flowing, ethereal stoles that flutter like butterflies, enveloping and flattering the body-embellishments the work of his own hands that become an integral part of the personality of those who wear them. The unparalleled beauty of Gualti shop windows immediately capture your attention.
Piccolo universo di fashion e design applicato all’eleganza femminile. Affascinato dalla natura, Gualti realizza le sue creature: gioielli, scarpe, stole fluide e aeree come il volo di una farfalla, che abbracciano il corpo e lo valorizzano, ornamenti che nascono dalle sue mani e diventano parte integrante della personalità di chi li indosserà. Le vetrine di Gualti catturano l’attenzione per la loro bellezza assoluta.

Why: Gualti’s jewellery and stoles seem like works of art and create an inimitable, emotion- filled style.
Perché: i gioielli e le stole di Gualti sembrano opere d’arte e creano un look inimitabile, capace di emozionare.

14 Dicembre 2013
Sparkling December Cocktail & Dinner Party
all’Hotel Metropole di Venezia
Un evento natalizio glamour di beneficenza.
Un imperdibile party annuale su invito, organizzato e promosso dalla proprietaria e Direttore Generale dell’Hotel Metropole, Gloria Beggiato.
Durante la festa, gli ospiti, tra cui celebrità del mondo dello spettacolo, dell’arte e della moda, si sono uniti per celebrare il Natale
e contribuire alla raccolta fondi, da anni devoluti alla FFC, Fondazione per la Ricerca sulla Fibrosi Cistica – Onlus.
La scelta nasce dalla lunga amicizia che lega Gloria e la Contessa Marta Marzotto,
ospite fissa del Metropole che da anni rappresenta e sostiene le iniziative di questa importante organizzazione benefica italiana.
Durante la serata la Contessa Marta Marzotto ha battuto all’asta di beneficenza una spilla “Calliandra” di GUALTI
che ho donato per l’occasione.

Foto di Matteo Bertolin

Paola si è aggiudicata all’asta la spilla “Calliandra” di GUALTI….era talmente felice che mi ha cercato tra gli ospiti della serata per farsela appuntare subito alla giacca.

Gavelers organizes the biggest fashion auction of the Netherlands.
Saturday, October the 26th, 2013 “the biggest fashion auction ever held in the Netherlands”, will take place.
Fashion academy ‘Akademie Vogue’ changes for one day into an auction room.
On the auction block are fashion pieces from the extraordinary and extensive collection
of former director Joke Veeze (died the 24 May 2013 at the age of 68).
Auctionhouse Gavelers presents masterpieces of famous fashion houses like Chanel, Dries van Noten,
Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Viktor & Rolf,
and two blue/purple wearable textile art pieces by GUALTI !
We are sorry to lose a dear friend and collector, but flattered to be included in such an important list of fashion names. video
AKADEMIE VOGUE – Rozengracht 133-1 , 1016 LV Amsterdam

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” Lost in bijoux a Venezia ” by Daniela de Rosa

Giugno 2013

Sì lo so, questa “spensierata” passeggiata in Dorsoduro riserva inaspettate sorprese e sono sempre più convinta che Venezia rimane un avamposto di originalità. Nei pressi di campo Santa Margherita, vicino al Ponte dei Pugni, non può passare inosservata l’affascinante e sofisticata vetrina di Gualti, preparatevi ad un’escalation di emozioni. Si entra in un atelier interamente bianco e si ha la sensazione di muoversi in un’atmosfera rarefatta, quasi di sospensione temporale, come immergersi nei fondali di un reef corallino. emergono favolose attinie, anemoni di mare in un tripudio di colori e i loro lunghi pistilli che danzano fluttuanti seguendo le correnti marine. Sono invece le favolose creazioni di Gualtiero Salbego in arte Gualti: bracciali, orecchini, spille, gorgiere e anche meravigliose stole. Emozioni intense che giocano con le linee, la luce, i colori, i movimenti, scenografici e surreali gioielli-scultura da indossare. Desidero condividere con voi l’indirizzo di questo magico limbo: Dorsoduro, Rio Terà Canal 3111.

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In the spaces of the Oriental Bar at Hotel Metropole, Venice

1-30 June 2013
Gualti: Spectacular sculptures to be worn reveal the details of an imaginary nature in a three-dimensional play of lights, transparencies, colours and movements. Extensions of the body and soul to enrich the secret treasure trove of dreams.

-Headpiece “Pachira” acrylic, nylon, Swarovski crystal cabochon.
-Necklace “Calliandra” acrylic, nylon, Swarovski crystal cabochon.
-Wrap “Nudibranch” oganza pleated.

Photos by Giorgio Ricci

Book published by Mondadori Electa, 2013
“Le sfide di una donna oltre l’arte”
di Lucrezia De Domizio Durini

In the book cover photo
Lucrezia De Domizio Durini at her home in Paris
with black pleated sculptural curled crinoline hat by GUALTI
Photo by Helenio Barbetta

Alcune creazioni di GUALTI selezionate
per il Programma TV: “Come si cambia Academy”
condotto da Diego dalla Palma, trasmesso nel 2013 su Rete 4.

– Puntata del 4 maggio 2013
Alessandra Dini nel tutorial di stile ha presentato con enfasi
la collana-scultura “Calliandra” di GUALTI al minuto 00:08:2 VIDEO
– Puntata del 18 maggio 2013
Diego dalla Palma ha dato il suo “tocco finale” alle due protagoniste con due creazioni di GUALTI
…Stefania con la sciarpa-collana “Tubetti” verde malachite di GUALTI
…la bellissima Francesca con la collana-scultura “Lacrime Viola” di GUALTI
al minuto 00:40:00 VIDEO
– Puntata del 25 maggio 2013
Alessandra Dini nel tutorial di stile ha presentato con enfasi la spilla-scultura “Attinia” di GUALTI
al minuto 00:23:45 VIDEO
– Puntata dell’ 1 giugno 2013
Diego dalla Palma ha dato il suo “tocco finale” ad una delle protagoniste
con la sciarpa in organza “Nudibranch” di GUALTI
al minuto 00:41:16 VIDEO
– Puntata del 22 giugno 2013
Diego dalla Palma ha dato il suo “tocco finale” alla protagonista Barbara
con gli orecchini a spirale nero/oro di GUALTI
al minuto 00:42:50 VIDEO

Alcune foto tratte dai video delle puntate

Vanilla edizioni 2013

Page 111

GUALTI
DOR 3111- Rio terà canal
Tel. 041 520 1731
Entrando rimarrete inebriati dal profumo che si sprigiona in questo piccolo locale. Qui potete trovare gioielli ed accessori dal design contemporaneo, originali e fuori dal comune. Delle vere sculture da indossare, per occasioni speciali o per aggiungere un pizzico di pepe alla vita di tutti i giorni.

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L’ Express n.3226 French Magazine
1 May 2013
by Nathalie Chahine

La Biennale d’art contemporain qui commence en juin, la Mostra fin août… pas de doute, l’été sera VENITIEN! De Cannaregio à la Giudecca, notre best of des lieux INCONTOURNABLES, des plans secrets et des nouvelles adresses à découvrir avant la mêlée.
L’ appel de Venise
DOSSIER RÉALISÉ PAR NATHALIE CHAHINE
Dorsoduro chic et arty
L’embouchure du Grand Canal, où paradent les plus beaux palais Renaissance du monde, irrigue aussi le triangle d’or culturel de la ville.
Après le café, aller humer l’air bohème du campo Santa Margherita et prévoir trois visites. 1. A Gualti, la boutique de Gualtiero Salbego, créateur d’étoles en plissé dignes de Mariano Fortuny.
GUALTI, rio Terà, canal 3111, 00-39-041-520-1731

di Venezia e Mestre – Domenica 14 Aprile 2013
Le mostre “made in Venice” all’hotel
Gloria Beggiato del Metropole, organizza esposizioni valorizzando artigiani e designer veneziani
Per le calli si può girare all’infinito, eppure qualcosa di sconosciuto resta sempre. Lo sa chi viene a Venezia di tanto in tanto ma anche chi, in questa città, ci vive da quando è nato. Nel fermento di un centro storico che cambia, nel bene e nel male, ci sono artigiani e designer che dal piccolo delle loro botteghe raggiungono tutto il mondo, facendosi apprezzare per quel marchio “Made in Venice” che continua ad affascinare. Rendendosi conto di quanti talenti ci sono a Venezia, più o meno conosciuti, Gloria Beggiato-venezianissima proprietaria dell’Hotel Metropole – ha deciso di farli a scoprire al pubblico un po’ alla volta, di anno di anno, dedicando loro le tre vetrine (fronte-Bacino) dell’albergo a cinque stelle in Riva degli Schiavoni.

Gli scenografici accessori Gualti in mostra all’hotel in Riva degli Schiavoni

di Venezia e Mestre – Sabato 9 Marzo 2013

Cinque creativi del “Made in Venice”
Tra gli oggetti di design anche le scenografiche sculture da indossare di Gualti (1-30 giugno): volumi intorno al collo e ai polsi che rivelano i dettagli di una natura oltre l’immaginazione in un gioco tridimensionale di luci e trasparenze, colori e movimenti.

La Galerie Caractère
participe au festival de l’image sous-marine Festisub
avec les bijoux contemporain de GUALTI ,
Anne Brunner, Ineke Otte, Tiffany Rowe, Aline Kokinopoulos, Isabelle Azaïs, Pascal Cretin et Gema Barrera.
Les 8 et 9 mars 2013 à Neuchâtel, Suisse.

Venerdì 8 marzo 2013
Vernice del Fashion Design Made in Venice 2013
all’Hotel Metropole, Venezia.
Serata all’insegna del glamour e della moda che ha anticipato,
con la presentazione di una mia creazione inedita,
la mostra che si terrà dal 1 al 30 giugno 2013.
GUALTI e Gloria Beggiato ( proprietaria dell’Hotel Metropole )
Foto di Laura Scarpa

GUALTI e la carissima amica Serena accanto al mio gioiello durante la vernice del
Fashion Design Made in Venice 2013. Foto di Mirco Salvadori

Some cretions by GUALTI at Galerie Caractère, Neuchâtel, Suisse
Christmas group exhibition

Guide – Edizioni dell’Ambrosino – 2012
Page 67
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Artigianato, Design, Gioielli, Moda
Gualti
sculture da indossare
Incontrare Gualtiero Salbego è un’esperienza che colpisce profondamente. La sua è una favola bellissima, intensa e toccante. È il sogno che si fa realtà, è la passione che vince tutte le paure e gli ostacoli. Quattordici anni fa Gualti, questo il suo nome d’arte, si trasferisce a Venezia e da allora la sua creatività non ha più avuto limiti. L’atelier che porta il suo nome è un luogo che trascende lo spazio e il tempo, un luogo dell’anima dove le sue meravigliose creazioni prendono vita. Le opere di Gualti vivono sulla donna che le indossa, ed è qui che sta la sorpresa. L´apparente fragilità dei gioielli si scopre essere un’illusione: tutto è pensato per essere indossato. I materiali particolarissimi spaziano dalle resine sintetiche mescolate fra loro all’alluminio colorato. Bracciali, anelli, orecchini, collari, headpiece, diventano così estensioni del corpo. Ma ci sono anche stole in materiali pregiati: sete, organze, taffetà, e tutto ciò che può avvolgere il corpo di donna. È proprio così: Gualti, sculture da indossare.

Air France Group on-board magazine
April 2012

TEXTE Thomas Jean – PHOTO Jérôme Galland

RAISONS D’ALLER À VENISE
INTEMPORELLE ET À FLEUR D’EAU, SA MAGIE FASCINE. MAIS LA CITÉ DES DOGES REFUSE DE S’ENDORMIR SUR SES GLOIRES PASSÉES. EN MOUVEMENT, VIVANTE, CRÉATIVE, ELLE TROUBLE AVEC CHARME SON IMAGE DE VILLE-MUSÉE.

Les tentations de Venise
Presque autant d’artisans que d’églises à Venise, ici le travail bien fait est une religion.
Tout aussi fantasques, les étoles et bijoux de Gualti, entre organza, cristaux et Nylon.
GUALTI Rio Terà Canal, Dorsoduro 3111.
Tél. +39 041 520 1731. www.gualti.it

PREZIOSE
Mostra Fotografica
Isola di San Servolo, Venezia – 18 Febbraio 2012
Sei inediti scatti fotografici in cui si rappresentano
alcune delle più importanti pietre preziose:
il diamante, il rubino, lo smeraldo, lo zaffiro, l’ametista ed il topazio.
Ogni pietra possiede caratteristiche uniche come il colore,
il riflesso, proprietà alchemiche e magiche; inoltre ciascuna
gemma è simbolo, secondo le più antiche tradizioni, di un segno zodiacale.
A far vivere la magia di tali pietre preziose,
i fotografi Alessandro Scarpa e Carlo Albertini,
con la collaborazione della Hair Style & Make up artist Letizia Cordella,
e di GUALTI che ha creato appositamente per ogni scatto
una serie di incredibili gioielli-scultura che impreziosiscono
la bellezza e la sinuosità delle modelle :
Giulia Nicole Magro ( DIAMOND )
Elena Todos ( AMETHYST )
Chantal Fisher ( EMERALD )
Raissa Campagnola ( RUBY )
Alice Battiston ( SAPPHIRE )
Marica Fabbro e Giulia Frasson ( TOPAZ )

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Summer 2011 – page 48

GUALTI
Gualti creates elegant and sumptuous scarves, shoes and body ornaments that seem taken directly from a fairy-tale story or from a Victorian theatre play. Combining nature-inspired forms with delicate materials, such as silk and cashmere, its scarves are the jewel in the crown of the stylist’s fantasy, as it will make you look like you are wearing a portable work of art!
Foulards somptueux, chaussures élégantes et sublimes parures: les créations de Gualti semblent tout droit sorties d’un conte de fées ou du théâtre victorien. Les motifs inspirés par la nature, la délicatesse de la soie et du cachemire portent le talent du créateur à son apogée et vous enveloppent d’une véritable œuvre d’art!
Dorsoduro, Rio Terà Canal 3111.
Mon-Sat: 10h-1h and 15h-19h30. Tel.: +39 041 520173. www.gualti.it

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Magazine Giugno 2011
By Lucia Parisini

Gualti
Gioie e Ornamenti dai colori dell’iride, apparentemente fragili o difficili da indossare… ma in realtà duttili e leggeri come piume. Gualti trasforma le sue emozioni, i suoi sogni, le fantasie, i desideri in ornamenti del corpo e dell’anima. Cuori vitrei pulsanti di luce come pupille d’acqua, dai quali si protendono filamenti trasparenti e terminazioni iridescenti come germogli di luce. Da golini rigidi spuntano pistilli lunghi e sinuosi come inconsuete infiorescenze tropicali movimentate da un soffio di vento, Bracciali, anelli, orecchini, collare e headpieces come organiche sculture-gioiello che Gualti definisce estensioni del corpo. Ogni creazione è un’opera d’arte, un pezzo unico, assolutamente originale.
www.gualti.it

Cavallino Treporti, Venezia – February 26, 2011
The contemporary singer Romina Salvadori wears an incredible bracelet
with a vibrant fiber-optics by GUALTI
realized expressly for the performance the “Lagoon Monster”.
Photos by Elisabetta Roan

Spot GUALTI Venezia
( durata 34” )
Scritto e diretto da Roberto De Rosa
con Martina Cappella.
Collaboratori Aluk Amiri, Mario Guzzo.
Musica Oslo by Knifeville
Prodotto da Minieracinema, 2010

– Barefoot on grass…with “Inflorescence” brooch by GUALTI
– Tree trunk in a forest adorned with sculptural organza scarves by GUALTI
– Between the branches…”Inflorescence” brooches by GUALTI
– Martina with headpiece by GUALTI

VIDEO

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GUALTI in TV a : Le dritte di Dove — I segreti artigianali di Venezia –
5 Dicembre 2010
Produzione originale del canale DoveTv, Sky canale 412.
Nella puntata, Francesca Mazzalai svela i segreti di una città unica al mondo: Venezia.
A Venezia, non si è perso il gusto del lavoro artigianale: molti negozi sono delle vere e proprie botteghe dove i prodotti vengono ancora creati interamente a mano. Ne è un esempio l’Atelier Gualti dove sono in vendita delle vere e proprie creazioni gioiello, ispirate alle forme della natura: gli abiti sono coralli che avvolgono il corpo, le spille foglie dorate, i collier germinazioni trasparenti… video

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Magazine October 2010

Venice BLACKBOOK
Neighborhood Dorsoduro 6 GUALTI
Not for the faint of heart, but Gualtiero Salbego’s wearable art is undoubtedly original: starburst brooches or flower cuffs done in brightly colored resin and glass. He also has a line of shawls in pleated organza. At 3111 Dorsoduro, Rio Terà Canal; 39-041/520-1731; gualti.it.

” VENICE ART AND CRAFTS “

And right between Campo S.Margherita, one of the liveliest places of the city (especially in summer, thanks to high concentration of cafés and restaurants with outdoor tables) and the nearby Campo S.Barnaba, there is a shop-atelier of Gualti, whose real name is Gualtiero Salbego, “experimenter of matter”, as he defines himself.
After training as a ceramist, during which he had never stopped creating various objects using also wood and metals, in 1990 he discovered a material usually used for industrial purposes: it’s to do with synthetic resin, supple and therefore mouldable, that has the transparency and lightness of glass but not its fragility.
Thanks to this material, originally poor but becoming precious with manufacture and combination with glass and crystal details, then hand painted, Gualti starts to create these necklaces, almost small sculptures but which seem endowed with life (in fact, he calls them “creatures”): brooches as leaves or flowers with long threads, necklace as a waterfall of filaments or roots, earrings as anemone vibratiles, which at close look reveal a microcosm rich in details: the “heart” of the jewel is almost always in glass or crystal, that a below layer of silver makes luminous and iridescent like an eye.
All in this innocent and welcoming space seems to be in continuous becoming: even the brick walls within sight, slowly crumbled by time, or the wooden beams on the ceiling, all speak about ceaseless change of natural world.
In addition to necklaces, Gualti has recently started to produce also some accessories, always characterised by his unmistakable style: silk scarves where the fabric remains almost imprisoned by filaments of resin and evening shoes in crepe or satin silk handcrafted following his drawing, often adorned with a small jewel.

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Podcast Host, Professor, Writer – February 16, 2010

Jewels of Venice

Venice is one of my five favorite cities in the world. I first went to Venice as a teenager, on a school trip with the Dominican nuns. I was entranced by the canals and beauty of meandering through the streets and waterways. When I returned years later, I once again lost myself in the twists and surprises of the floating city. As I walked, looking at shops full of masks, costumes, art, I went past an enchanting shorefront filled with a different kind of jewelry – modern, light, romantic. I lunched with friends in the nearby piazza of Santa Margherita (happily devoid of tourists) and came back to browse. My boyfriend (now husband) struck up a conversation with Gualti who created all the fabulous jewelry. I left with my first piece, a necklace, and every time we went back for the Venice Biennale, I added to my collection. Gualti even made me my own special headpiece for my wedding. I asked Gualti to write about his passion for this month’s art theme. If ever you find yourself in Venice, meander over to see him.

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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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The contemporary singer Romina Salvadori
wears two gowns with jewelry created for her by GUALTI
for the theatrical dance performance “4”
with the RBR Dance Company
( founded by Cristiano Fagioli and Cristina Ledri )
in which the four elements are represented ( Air – Water – Earth – Fire ).

( Fire – Earth )
Romina Salvadori wearing an asymmetrical sculptural dress of red silk
with a three-dimensional explosion of crinoline and crystals on her shoulder
and on her wrist a pistils-shaped bacelet with red Swarovski crystals by GUALTI

( Air – Water )
Romina Salvadori wearing a sculpture-dress of silk and pleated silver crinoline,
from which spring multiple filaments ending in metallic Swarovski crystals by GUALTI

Photos by Elisabetta Roan

22 November, 2009 – 3:00 p.m. – Certosa Island, Venice

Exhibition/Performance curated by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini
GUALTI : ROOTS RISING UP FROM DEEP WITHIN…
Photos by Gino Di Paolo ( Archivio storico De Domizio Durini )

GUALTI
“ ROOTS RISING UP FROM DEEP WITHIN… “

Sculptures to be worn

An artistic object must not reproduce the visible, but rather reveal the invisible. (LDD).

Venice…with her gentility, with her architecture, with her light, with her beguiling charm, with her art…everything has already been said…and yet…amidst the hustle and bustle of the quarter of Dorsoduro, near Campo Santa Margherita, near the Ponte Dei Pugni, a small secluded cellar seems to beckon to us – the captivating and sophisticated shop window of Gualti.
Unusual creations are displayed in contrasting equilibrium. An art installation that, in an exquisite harmony of colour and form, represents the artistic quest of a young talent.
The atelier is entirely white, a sort of limbo, a cosy “wunderkammer” where the air emanates poetry and creativity.
In this mystical alcove enveloped in a rarefied atmosphere, almost suspended in time, emerge the surreal and spectacular sculptures of Gualti. They are sculptures that envelop the body. Sculptures to be worn A sort of fascinating universe of enchanting splendour, difficult to describe with words because art is a language in and of itself, an intense sensation, cosmic desire, sentiment of the soul.

Gualti, a youthful thirty seven-year-old originally from Padua, moved to Venice in September of 1998 to inaugurate his atelier-galleria following a long, tortuous, and sensitive evolution. He is self-taught, a “material experimenter”, an inventor of decorative forms for the body, who abandoned himself to the creativity that passionately consumes his entire existence. Since childhood, his extreme sensitivity has left him in awe when faced with the grandeur of Nature. The places of his adolescence strongly influenced the young Gualti: he would admire small rivulets of water tripping along in myriad kaleidoscopic reflections…he would observe the sinuous dance of silvery algae gracefully suspended in that mysterious crystalline surface while their harmonious movement would work an almost hypnotic spell…he would absorbingly examine the delicate buds of plants…scrutinize every detail of tiny teeming creatures and their interaction with the physical environment around them…the world behind the superficiality of reality enchants him…He is particularly attracted to everything that is beneath the surface: small fossils, twigs, stones, and above all roots…tangled, woody, branched, fibrous, tubers, sometimes aerial or creeping…He is fascinated by small anthropomorphic apparatus and their organic forms…

This crossroads of interests and visions gave rise to the creative odyssey of the man-artist Gualti.
And it is precisely from the secrets of the atmospheric and botanical environment throbbing with life that Gualti gives birth to abstract forms. Nothing is by chance.
Through creativity and awareness he creates atypical ornaments that second the body.
His creations are born from within his own soul like roots rising up from deep within. The atypical creative forms – Sculptures to be worn – are his very emotions lived with intensity, knowledge, and awareness, with love and with regal creativity. They are mysterious, guarded in a sort of precious treasure chest and, when materialised, bring his experience back through time to life.
When Gualti speaks of his creations, he basks in his own memories: …this is a cathartic need for me, in addition to being a sort of mission, manifesting my past sensations to be able to share them by granting my personal interpretation of those “luminescent reflections of burgeoning images” through the realisation of my “ethereal creatures”…they are part of my entire existence, of my way of being… of living and working in serenity…the contemplation of beauty enraptures me…
Each of his works stands testimony to his reverence of the Ego, for the Unconscious, for that which is the sublimation of being…Gualti…I abandon myself to emotions and urges… it is a joy for me to render those moments of particular emotional intensity tangible…make the invisible visible…it’s like seeking to solidify the evanescent esoteric filigree of Nature…melding the organic and inorganic…transforming the dream into reality…

A demanding perfectionist, he is always seeking new stimuli and forms that second his creative evolution. Gualti’s ornaments never betray aesthetics, but always and in any case evoke grand formal elegance. They are born of the equilibrium of free creativity. They are spontaneous, radiant, harmonious atypical expressions that emerge from a sweet spiritual serenity. In each of his jewels he seeks “the sense of lightness”, using particularly unusual materials, assembled and fused with an extraordinary vision, always experimenting in a new, magical, and unique idiom…

Gualti is a visual poet who illuminates the ontological nature of his perceptive explorations.

Jewels and ornaments in a rainbow spectrum, apparently fragile or difficult to wear…but in reality as supple and lightweight as feathers. They are extensions of life…to be savoured every instant of every day, and can be touched and worn casually, but certainly without going unobserved…Glassy hearts pulsating with light like watery mirrors, from which transparent filaments and iridescent tips reach out – offshoots of light – as Gualti defines them. The pins rest on shoulders like fanciful flowers just blossomed….the pendants caress necklines like shimmering drops of water…the swirls of vibrant filaments encircle necks like sparkling rings of pearly dew…rigid chokers shoot forth long and sinuous pistils like exotic tropical blooms blowing in a sea breeze…Bracelets…rings…earrings…collars
…headpieces…the entire body is willingly captured, dressed, and transformed by these organic sculpture-jewels that Gualti defines as extensions of the body. They are indefinable architectures, timeless in alternating lights, shadows, colours, volumes, asymmetries, and movement…The universe of Gualti continues with the creation of his stoles… : Silks…organza… taffetas,…and anything else that can be wrapped around the body like a cocoon…Original plissé of iridescent fabrics crumples surprisingly, enhanced by voluminous sinuous hems that form spirals evoking diaphanous creatures of unexplored abysses….His jewellery can be minute and ethereal like the mottled wings of a scarab or sumptuous like Egyptian jewels…liquid like the stuff of dreams…they can move, dance, caress, jingle…each living its own life.
Every creation is unique – absolutely original.
A work of art. Sculptures to be worn

Gualti transforms his deepest emotions, his dreams, his fantasies, and desires into ornaments for the body and soul…a sort of perpetual voyage in time and space, where there is no beginning and no end, but rather a continual evolution that seeks and affirms its “sensations”.
He explores paths of refined stylistic perfection that transcend the object and project it towards the symbolic value of a gift with no return, towards the discovery of new poetics that then enriches, once again, the secret treasure chest of dreams.

The oneiric experience of the artist Gualti: Sculptures to be worn

by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini

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Slušně ujeté a bizarní šperky
Když si jdete koupit něco do zlatnictví, nejspíš to bývá něco
klasického, ale kam zajít, když chcete vlastnit něco bizarního?

by Lili – 2009 ( Czechoslovakian text )

Svítící šperky
Přírodními krásami se nechal inspirovat italský designer Gualti. Jeho svítící šperky mají oslavovat krásu lidského těla. Extravagantní náušnice mají připomínat květiny a kořeny rostlin ukryté v zemi.

“Vždy mě zajímala příroda a krásy, které nabízí, kořeny rostlin mě ale fascinují snad nejvíc, emotivně mě pohled na ně vždy zasáhne. Pak ty pocity vložím do svých šperků. Moje šperky reflektují nejen krásy přírody, ale jsou jaksi i ušité na tělo jejich nositeli,“ řekl Gualti.

VOLUME 6.4 | A publication of Material ConneXion – 2009
The leading global platform for material innovation and solutions
www.materialconnexion.com
Page 30 and 31

Travel Material: From Venice to New York
By George M. Beylerian

Artists have a particularly
visceral approach to material experimentation. George Beylerian witnessed this first hand during his travels to the 53rd Venice Biennale earlier this year. He reports from Venice on the spectacular forms he discovered by two artists, GUALTI and Federica Marangoni, whose passion for materials drives their respective bodies of work in very different ways.

Travel Material: Notes from the Venice Art Biennale
By George M. Beylerian

GUALTI: Shoots of Light
In the heart of Dorsoduro is a white jewel box – hardly a 12′ x 12′ space, filled with the most delicate, attractive jewels of body ornaments. These jewels, however, are not made of gold or gemstones; they are actually made by the magical hands of GUALTI (Guatiero Salbergo) fashioned from nylon filament threads-resin acts as his “basic material”. The result is pure magic! The ornaments are collar wraps, from small to extravagant, collar and wristbands that flutter into graceful and butterfly shapes, pleated and delicate in vibrant colors. Resin acts as his ‘base’ with nylon filament threads which reflect his childhood memories of pulling out roots from the soil as artforms. He
creates “shoots of Light” as extension of the body. The sensibility in his fingers indicate childhood and adolescence work experience, when at 13, he started work in a laboratory of an artist/ ceramist in Capodimonte. At 18 he developed a passion for wearables, always manipulating shapes, curves and playing with “elasticity” as the extension of his craft. He explains that his work is not fashion, but art. His “expressive needs” are mirrored in his work through form and color. In other words GUALTI creates magic through his sense of color, shapes, curves, forms and the subtlety of it all! A true magician of shapes and colors!

Travel guide by Frommer’s – 2009

Gualti
The distinctive contemporary jewelry, each piece a work of art in bursts of colorful glass,
is made on the premises by one of the city’s stellar artisans.

BLOG – by Jaqueline – November 18, 2008

Ornamenti lucenti.
Se vi capita di passare dalle parti di Venezia andate a vedere, nel sestiere di Dorsoduro, lo showroom del giovane designer Gualti.
Lì troverete gioielli, abiti e tessuti di estrema raffinatezza. Ornamenti che “vivono e pulsano di luce propria”.
Guardate e sognate!

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Photo from the CD booklet
of the album “Più di me” ( Sony Columbia ) 2008
of the famous Italian singer Ornella Vanoni…
with “Sontuosa” pleated taffeta black and white sculpture jacket/wrap by GUALTI.
Photo by Maki Galimberti

Magazine – Autunno 2008
By Laura Novello

Gli indirizzi più esclusivi spesso si nascondono negli angoli meno battuti dai turisti
Fuori dai circuiti turistici
VENEZIA e i suoi segreti
Misteriosa, evanescente. Venezia non smette mai di regalare emozioni, suggestioni, ricordi. Al di là delle classiche mete battute dai turisti, la città lagunare sorprende con posti insoliti e segreti: dalle dimore d’epoca trasformate in hotel, alle gallerie d’arte, dai prestigiosi negozi d’antiquariato alle botteghe artigiane più raffinate, e ancora atelier, ristoranti e caffè lontani dai soliti circuiti.
Per originali gioielli-scultura, sofisticate gorgiere e stole cangianti “multiuso”
l’indirizzo giusto è l’Atelier Gualti che realizza anche scarpe su misura in raso o seta.

20.21.22.23.24.25 Maggio 2008 Bolognano ( PE ) Italia
Nel segno di Joseph Beuys
In DIFESA dell’UOMO e a SALVAGUARDIA DELLA NATURA
a cura di Lucrezia De Domizio Durini e Antonio d’Avossa

25 Maggio – IL LUOGO DELLA NATURA – Piantagione Paradise
Performance : Gualti, Ornamenti del Corpo e dell’Anima
Foto di Gino Di Paolo

BLOG – 7 de maio de 2008 – Postado por IDA E. BENZ

Simbologia da natureza
Inspirada nas formas da natureza, o designer italiano Gualti, cria jóias e roupas que poderiam muito bem pertencer ao mundo das “fadas”.
A leveza do movimento que Gualti consegue “transmitir” em seu trabalho é maravilhoso!
Flores, folhagens, vento… tudo se transforma, como o designer mesmo explica, em “a organic-symbolic extension of the humam body”.

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Blog – Postado por IDA E. BENZ – 7 de maio de 2008

Impacto e elegância
Outra coisa que me chamou atenção no site do designer italiano foram as suas vitrines…
“Limpas”, marcantes e com um “glamour elegante”,
elas conseguem demonstrar ao consumidor toda a beleza e dramaticidade das peças de Gualti.


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by Lourdes Sanchez Bayas — April 28, 2008
Tentacle Jewelry
Gualti Earrings Inspired by Plant Roots
Inspired by various forms of vegetation, Italian designer Gualti dreamed up these surrealist, organic-symbolic extensions of the human body in the form of jewels. The extravagant earrings are designed to resemble certain flowers and the roots of plants rising up from deep within.

“I have always been attracted by what lies beneath the surface of reality,” says Gualti. “The roots of plants, whose forms fascinate me and capture my emotive sides.”

“I create the way I breathe, my pieces project my feelings.The ornaments born of my hands become extensions for the body, seeds reflecting the personality of their wearer.”

He has a very poetic way with words, a sure sign that art flows through all elements of his life.

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2008
European Cities VII
Rome Milan Turin Venice

GUALTI
In his tiny workshop with spotless white walls-so white in fact that they look like they’ve been daubed in whipped cream— Gualtiero Salbego’s pleated shawls seem to float in mid-air like mysterious sea creatures. One side plays host to jewelry-sculptures made of resin, fiber-optic cable, and any other material that the creative and poetic imagination of Salbego has seen fit to make use of, a mass of brooches, pendants, bracelets, and necklaces; the other displays a single style of court pump: 1 made to measure in satin silk, available within a month in eighty-five colors, with, on request, a clutch to match.

Magazine – March 2008

Una spilla di Gualti, giovane artista che crea con un mix di materiali dei gioielli inconsueti, dall’aspetto etereo e colorato, che sembrano fuochi d’artificio. Piccole sculture apparentemente fragili ma in realtà chuttili, leggere come piume e facili da indossare.
A brooch by Gualti, young artist who creates, through a mixture of materials, rare jewels, with a heavenly and colored look, which seem an explosion of fireworks. Smalls sculptures seemingly fragile but actually pliable, light like feath ers and easy to wear.

Guide Design by DesignCity 2008
Luoghi d’eccellenza del design
Design Sites of Excellence
Page 101

Arduo classificare la multiforme attività di Gualtiero Salbego. Come un anfitrione esce dal laboratorio dietro le tende di garza e in un piccolo showroom (bianco minimale) presenta le sue creazioni colorate. Gioielli che superano decorazione e mode; nella città del vetro crea preziosi con cuore vitreo pulsante da cui si protendono filamenti di nylon e terminazioni cangianti di materiali altamente tecnologici: spille, orecchini o gorgiere, estensione di chi li indossa. Organicità e leggerezza anche per coprispalle e scialli double-face- sculture attorno al corpo e per scarpe e pochette. La cura dei dettagli trionfa nella vetrina sempre originale e nelle realizzazioni di flower design.
It’s hard to classify the many activities of Gualtiero Salbego. Like an amphitryon he comes out from behind the cheese cloth curtain of his laboratory to present his colourful creations in a small showroom (minimal white). His jewellery goes beyond ornamentation and fashion; in the city of glass, his creations have pulsing glass hearts with iridescent, highly technological end pieces hanging on nylon threads: broaches, earrings or necklaces, representative of those who wear them. Organicity and lightness are also typical of his stoles and reversible shawls (sculptures around a body), his shoes and pochette handbags. Details are behind the success of his unusual window creations and floral designs.

BLOG – Par Adeline et Mathieu – 19.10.2007

Gualti, bijoutier magicien et bien plus
Gualti, il maëstro, vous le découvrirez dans sa minuscule boutique atelier au détour d’une petite ruelle vénitienne, pris entre 2 canaux, mais vous serez happées par sa vitrine enchanteresse si vous passez à proximité.
Ce créateur vénitien est un véritable magicien du bon goût, de la légèreté, de la poésie, du glamour et du chic (et encore je fais light).
Tout dans ses créations reflète une certaine idée de la perfection, c’est magique!!!, avec Venise en prime

LINK

Brussels Airlines
European Network Inflight Magazine
July 2007

Dorsoduro
The cultural quarter of Venice is now expanding west, thanks to the new university buildings.
» Shop til you drop Gualti’s (Rio Tera Canal) brooches and necklaces are wearable art.

GUALTI at
Strand Gallery
VENICE HIDDEN FACES (Group Exhibition)
Aldeburgh Festival 2007
164 High Street, IP15 5AQ Aldeburgh, Suffolk
UK

Auditorium Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre, VE
8 Maggio 2007 ore 21:00
Performance
Gualti : ornamenti scenici e intervento orale di Laura Soave

CONTESSANALLY – blog by Nally Bellati – March 19, 2007

Venezia. Gualti’s small and exciting boutique just off Campo Santa Margherita is one of my favorite stores in the world. He creates incredible futuristic looking jewelry with surgical colored resins, as well as, stoles in pleated silk taffeta or in flannel on wires that bend to your fantasy. Gualti defines his creations as: POETIC IMPRESSIONS PRECIOUS HARMONIES – ORNAMENTS FOR THE BODY AND SOUL –
ENCHANTED WORLDS – EXTENSIONS FOR THE BODY SCINTILLATING RARITIES – SPECTACULAR JEWEL SCULPTURES –
ROOTS RISING UP FROM DEEP WITHIN

And, more definitions: SEEDS OF LIGHT – EXPRESSIONS OF INTENSE EMOTION –
CREATURES FROM UNEXPLORED ABYSSES – JEWEL SCULPTURES – INTENSE EMOTIONS – SHOOTING STARS –
FIREWORKS IN A SUMMER NIGHT SKY – LIGHT RECEPTORS –
CRACKLING BURSTS OF LIGHT – HARMONIES OF LIGHT – TRANSPARENT CREATURES.

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Travel Guide by GEO – 2007/2008

Gualti
Anémones ou feux d’artifice ? Les sculptures-bijoux de ce créateur passionné de fleurs tremblotent à votre cou, vos mains, votre veste ou même vos talons hauts. Broches, diadèmes, colliers, bagues et bracelets sont fabriqués avec un mélange de verre et de résine et déclinent des couleurs acidulées et pourprées. Éclectique, Gualti réalise aussi sur commande quatre modèles d’escarpins en satin de soie, avec pochette assortie, à choisir parmi 120 coloris. Vous voilà parée pour monter les marches de la Mostra…

Travel Guide Florence & Venice
by Richard Saul Wurman – 2007

GUALTI
Gualti is one of the new wave of Venetian artists and craftsmen. And what a wave! What this man does is somewhere between art and craft and represents the best of both. He works in resin, glass, and nylon to create what can only be described as wearable sculpture. His works have the lightness and delicacy of glass, yet are pliable. Gualti says he sees them as extensions of the wearer’s body. I only wish I thought my body were beautiful enough to extend into anything like these earrings and necklaces, headpieces and shoe ornaments. They are like exotic sea anemones, or sometimes flowers or leaves, extending tendrils from a tiny central point-sometimes an eye or a “pool of water”-that frequently is made of glass crystal. The tendrils of his brooches, especially, cascade over the wearer’s shoulder like a fabulous corsage. The colors are rich, and each piece is crafted by hand with the point of a hot needle used to bore and solder. Gualti not only creates exuberant shoe ornaments, but hand dyes
the handmade silk shoes to match them. The latest addition to the art of Gualti is an array of fabulous wraps and some breathtakingly gorgeous jackets. All come in his wonderful colors-and most are reversible. The wraps and jacket collars are malleable into undulations and peaks as suits thewearer’s fancy. Truly this is unique, wearable art.

mensile per i viaggiatori di Trenitalia

N.1 Gennaio 2007 Pag.16
di Laura Novello

Tra calli, botteghe e atelier

Misteriosa ed evanescente, Venezia regala sempre emozioni, suggestioni e ricordi. Al di là dei luoghi più celebri da San Marco al Canal Grande a Rialto la città rivela gli angoli più insoliti e curiosi quando la si percorre alla scoperta di botteghe, atelier, antiquari, artigiani più o meno noti.

Verso campo San Barnaba (Rio Terà Canal 3111, tel. 041 5201731) si trova l’elegante e raffinato Atelier Gualti: artista e creatore
di gioielli-scultura in resine sintetiche e vetro, Gualti realizza anche sofisticate gorgiere e “abiti- ornamenti” come le stole multiuso cangianti, chiamate dall’artista “Madrepora”, assieme a scarpe in raso e seta disponibili in più di cento colori.

Italian American Magazine by Mazzanti Editori
Dicembre/December 2006

For a Gift…from the Heart

THERE ARE PRESENTS AND THEN THERE ARE PRESENTS THAT YOU CAN RECEIVE AS A SIGN OF AFFECTION OR THAT YOU CAN BUY YOURSELF AS A SYMBOL OF PERSONAL SUCCESS. THERE ARE OBJECTS WHICH GO BEYOND THEIR SIMPLE MONETARY VALUE (NOT ONLY IN THE SENSE THAT “THEY ARE PRICELESS”) BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT AN INTIMATE DATE WITH THE HISTORY OF THE PLACE WHERE THEY ARE RECEIVED, WITH THE CREATIVITY OF THE ARTIST WHO CREATES THEM AND WITH THE NATURE OF THE MATERIAL WITH WHICH
THEY ARE MADE.

In Venice, where the practice of selling, and selling yourself a bit in the process, is still observed, there are, fortunately, some happy isles upon which business in the soul has not surrendered to mass commercialism. There are objects which leave the world of the souvenir and enter the world of preciousness, uniqueness and good taste; there are shops which have chosen to remain intimate and genuine workshops in which craftsmen appear in leather aprons one day with work- worn hands then fly to New York the next to sell their “jewels.”

Let us continue and move on to the costume jewelry where we enter into two workshops where young owners/artists put their outstanding imagination to the service of light, art, and materials, realizing exquisite jewels and ornaments for the body.
The unstable, curvy, iridescent and vibrant creations of one of these young artists accompany the numerous elegant Venetian and foreign clients along an imaginary path of stylistic perfection, which tends to move away from the object towards its symbolic value. Pins, chokers, bracelets and hat pieces are all born from his passion for nature and for everything that is hidden under the appearance of what is real (roots, shoots, stamen, filaments, pistils) and for this reason they are created using a synthetic resin, soft and delicate and very fragile in appearance.

Perhaps it is actually true: in every object you can find the heart of a city. L.D.S.

Where to find them…
Gualti
Dorsoduro 3111 – Rio Terà Canal – Venice

Group Exhibition “Spielerischer Schmuck”
GUALTI at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
from 1 to 17 December 2006
with the GALERIE HILDE LEISS
( Großer Burstah 38, 20457 Hamburg )

GUALTI at
Strand Gallery
In collaboration with Suffolk Craft Society
SHOWCASE : JEWELLERY (Group Exhibition)
164 High Street, IP15 5AQ Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Regno Unito

14 July until 6 August 2006

Exhibition Catalog 21 x 21 cm

GUALTI – Italy

Jewels…
… intense emotions in a play on lines and light…
…delicate, ethereal creatures that ebb and flow around the body…
…bracelets, earrings, brooches, necklaces…
…dramatic sculptures to be worn.

Austrian Magazine – May 2006
By Silvia Matras

Venedig auf Abwegen
VENEDIG ist fantastisch, genial, absurd, irreal und dann auch wieder ganz alltäglich. Die Mischung macht das GESAMTKUNSTWERK
SHOPPING
Gualti
Dorsoduro, Rio Terà (sic) Canal 3111, Schmuck der ganz anderen Art.
Wer nur schauen möchte, ist auch herzlich willkommen.

2006
European Cities VII
Rome Milan Venice

GUALTI
Designer
In his tiny workshop with spotless white walls-so white in fact that they look like they’ve been daubed in whipped cream- Gualtiero Salbego’s surrealistic objects seem to float in midair. One side plays host to jewelry-sculptures made of resin, fiber-optic cable, and any other material that the creative and poetic imagination of Salbego has seen fit to make use of, a mass of brooches, pendants, bracelets, and neck- laces; the other displays a single style of court pump: made to measure in satin silk, available within a month in eighty-five colors, with, on request, a clutch to match.

Travel Guide by Lonely Planet – City Guides Series
By Damien Simonis – 2006

GUALTI
Jewellery & Shoes

The searing white interior of this fashion
oddity houses two quite unrelated collections. On the one hand there’s a set of daring ladies’ satin shoes in a range of colours. On the other there are strangely luminous brooches, pins and similar accessories that look like something in between a burst of fireworks and those 1970s table lamps that resemble clumps of unkempt hair with luminous split ends. Intriguing.

Magazine – October 2005 – Issue 2

THE VENETIAN DREAM
Venice is a Dream
The artisans of the city a-dd to its beauty
Gualti with ‘sculpted’ shawls and neck scarves, and one off jewellery and head pieces.

September 2005

Jewelry / By Gualti
Venice can often appear to be a solid mass of teeming T-shirted tourists, all hell-bent on accessorizing themselves with Murano glass beads and gaudy costume masks a far cry from the glamorous crowds of the city’s heyday. In welcome contrast, Gualti’s colored-resin creations bend and swirl in ethereal patterns and gleam in the light, evoking a time when lingering laughter and the noise from glittering parties echoed through the city’s meandering canals. www.gualti.it

magazine n.30 – Agosto / Ottobre 2005

GUALTI
Inventare gioielli è un po’ come disegnare sogni: le loro forme impregnate di luce e di colori riflessi nascono da una creatività che in Gualti è naturale e sconfina nel meraviglioso, dell’inconscio. Gualti dà la massima libertà alla fantasia ma sempre fantasticando sul fatto che le sue p “sculture da portare”, preziosissime decorazioni del corpo, devono aderire a una, persona. Il giovane artista, infatti, considera ogni “pezzo” una “estensione del corpo”, e anche “una poesia per arricchire lo scrigno dei sogni”.
Inventing jewels is a little like drawing dreams: their shapes sparkling with lights and reflected colours spring from creativity which for Gualti is natural and stem from the marvels of the unconscious. Gualti lends the greatest freedom to fantasy but he always dreams on the fact that his “wearable sculptures”, very precious apparel, must adhere to a person. The young artist, in point of fact, considers each “piece” an “extension of the body” or “a poem to enrich the treasure box of dreams”.

Magazine Volume 22 – Number 1 – 2005
By John Brunton

VENICE FOR CONNOISSEURS
Discover the real city with Venice resident John Brunton’s guide to the latest trends in this timeless, yet ever-changing city.
Spectacular shopping
Great destinations for memorable gifts and exclusive fashions.
Innovative Neckwear
The eccentric designer known simply as Gualti has opened a boutique showcasing innovative jewellery that has become a firm favourite with chic Venetians. These sensuous, handmade designs are crafted from a mysterious, maleable material.
Rio Terà Canal, Dorsoduro 3111.

Travel Guide by Hachette – 2005


Gualti
Enfin ! Le Dorsoduro commence à ressembler à sa faune d’esthètes un repaire de créateurs. Gualti est l’un d’eux et conçoit ses accessoires comme des extensions du corps. Ses bijoux de cheveux sont des sculptures en mouvement, un feu follet mélange de résine et de verre, très scénographique sur un fourreau sombre (premier prix les BO à 20 €). Ses écharpes en laine, montées sur structure légèrement rigide,
enveloppent les épaules en ondoyant (à partir de 85 €). Ses escarpins en satin de soie (85 coloris, deux types de talons, 219 €) sont à assortir aux pochettes, appliquées de bijoux. Tout est fait sur place.

” E per gioiello, un fiocco di luce “

di Alessandra Artale – 20 Febbraio 2005

E per gioiello, un fiocco di luce
Le creazioni veneziane di Gualti conquistano la Florida

Gioielli, emozioni che giocano con le linee e la luce, creature diafane fluttuanti e leggere che avvolgono il corpo, bracciali, orecchini, spille, gorgiere: scenografiche sculture da indossare. Il senso di leggerezza aleggia in tutta l’opera di Gualti, giovane artista capace di creare oggetti magici con la materia impalpabile delle sue resine, il vetro, i piccoli cristalli tenuti insieme da fili di nylon trasparenti, che per mezzo di sottili alchimie si ricollegano con le piume e i tessuti attraverso le vie contorte fra l’ordine e il disordine..
Nel piccolo e curatissimo atelier di rio Terà Canal, a pochi passi da campo Santa Margherita, le sue creazioni appaiono come vere esplosioni di luce, che nascono da un cuore di vetro per poi dipanarsi in filamenti flessibili e trasparenti che vanno a formare gioielli che nulla hanno a che vedere con la bigiotteria.
La spilla è l’oggetto che Gualti, nome d’arte di Gualtiero, predilige, anche se ora si è lanciato in nuove sperimentazioni: scarpe eleganti in raso di seta realizzate su misura da scegliere in 85 tonalità di colore, da abbinare a borsette che personalizza con piume, cristalli e piccole luci, tali da ricordare le scarpette da Cenerentola. Tra poco esordirà con gli abiti, sempre su misura, intesi come sculture che cambieranno intorno al corpo, così come le sciarpe e i coprispalle che già ha realizzato: morbida lana con un’anima per modellarle intorno al corpo.
In Florida un atelier di alta moda espone le sue «creature e la stampa internazionale gli ha già regalato molto spazio. Creature, le sue, per arricchire lo scrigno dei sogni.
(Alessandra Artale)

Travel Guide Florence & Venice
by Richard Saul Wurman – 2005

GUALTI
Gualti is one of the new wave of Venetian artists and craftsmen. And what a wave! What this man does is somewhere between art and craft and represents the best of both. He works in resin, glass, and nylon to create what can only be described as wearable sculpture. His works have the lightness and delicacy of glass, yet are pliable. Gualti says he sees them as extensions of the wearer’s body. I only wish I thought my body were beautiful enough to extend into anything like these earrings and necklaces, headpieces and shoe ornaments. They are like exotic sea
anemones, or sometimes flowers or leaves, extending tendrils from a tiny central point- sometimes an eye or a “pool of water”-that frequently is made of glass crystal. The tendrils of his brooches, especially, cascade over the wearer’s shoulder like a fabulous corsage. The colors are rich, and each piece is crafted by hand with the point of a hot needle used to bore and solder. Gualti not only creates exuberant shoe ornaments, but hand dyes the handmade silk shoes to match them.

Magazine ( Czechoslovakia )
February 2005

Benátky se ještě k tomu během posledních let staly působiš- těm exkluzivních mladých umělců, pracují- cích buď s lehkostí a křehkostí moderních materiálů, jako je návrhář módních doplňků Gualti (www.gualti.it)

“Breathing More Easily Without the Throngs”

Sunday, December 19, 2004

by Mary Billard

Wher to shop
Beyond the admittedly tacky souvenir shops, there are some establishments well worth a visit.

Less traditional, and certainly eclectic, is the 12 Gualti, Rio Terà Canal, near Campo Santa Margherita, (39-041) 520-1731, www gualti.it, which sells modern space-age brooches shaped like star bursts, manufac tured in colored resin that appears brittle but is pliable and soft. The perfect silk-satin shoe, with two heel options, can be customized in 85 colors ($295), and accessorized with an explosion of magical jewelry.