{"id":131,"date":"2010-02-16T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T04:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tatianaserafin.com\/speakers\/?p=131"},"modified":"2010-03-28T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T19:19:38","slug":"the-art-of-jewelry-and-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tatianaserafin.com\/speakers\/the-art-of-jewelry-and-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Jewelry and Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am Gualti<\/a>, a\u00a0young artist originally from Padua. I moved to Venice in September of 1998 to inaugurate\u00a0my\u00a0atelier-galleria <\/em>following a long, tortuous, and sensitive evolution.\u00a0I am\u00a0self-taught, a “material experimenter”, an inventor of decorative forms for the body, who abandoned myself to the creativity that passionately consumes\u00a0my entire existence. Since childhood,\u00a0my extreme sensitivity has left\u00a0me in awe when faced with the grandeur of Nature.\u00a0\u00a0The places of\u00a0my adolescence strongly influenced me:\u00a0 I admired small rivulets of water tripping along in myriad kaleidoscopic reflections, observed the sinuous dance of silvery algae gracefully suspended in that mysterious crystalline surface while their harmonious movement would work an almost hypnotic spell. I examined minutely\u00a0the delicate buds of plants, scrutinized every detail of tiny teeming creatures and their interaction with the physical environment around them. The world behind the superficiality of reality enchants me…I am\u00a0particularly attracted to everything that is beneath the surface:\u00a0small fossils, twigs, stones, and above all roots\u2026tangled, woody, branched, fibrous, tubers, sometimes aerial or creeping\u2026I am fascinated by small anthropomorphic apparatus and their organic forms…\"\"<\/a>
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In each of\u00a0my jewels\u00a0I seek \u201cthe sense of lightness\u201d, using particularly unusual materials, assembled and fused with an extraordinary vision, always experimenting in a new, magical, and unique idiom\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

They are jewels and ornaments in a rainbow spectrum, apparently fragile or difficult to wear\u2026but in reality as supple and lightweight as feathers. They are extensions of life\u2026to be savoured every instant of every day, and can be touched and worn casually, but certainly without going unobserved\u2026Glassy hearts<\/em> pulsating with light like watery mirrors, from which transparent filaments and iridescent tips reach out \u2013\u00a0offshoots of light<\/em>.Bracelets\u2026rings\u2026earrings\u2026collars\u2026headpieces…the entire body is willingly captured, dressed, and transformed by these organic sculpture-jewels that\u00a0I define as\u00a0extensions of the body\"\"<\/a>.
\n<\/em>They are indefinable constructions, timeless in alternating lights, shadows, colours, volumes, asymmetries, and movement…My universe continues with the creation of\u00a0my stoles\u2026 : silks\u2026organza\u2026 taffetas,\u2026and anything else that can be wrapped around the body like a cocoon\u2026Original pliss\u00e9 of iridescent fabrics crumples surprisingly, enhanced by voluminous sinuous hems that form spirals evoking diaphanous creatures of unexplored abysses\u2026.Every creation is unique – absolutely original.
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I transform my deepest emotions,\u00a0my dreams, 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 \u201csensations\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the moment, I am involved in my first theatrical project. I designed two costumes \"\"<\/a>and jewels to complement them for the glorious\u00a0singer Romina Salvadori<\/a>, who is performing in the latest work “4”<\/a> of the RBR DANCE COMPAN<\/a>Y directed by Cristiano Fagioli\u00a0in Italy, now in tour…a mystical and surreal atmosphere…Romina Salvadori with RBR Dance Company<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This first, exciting\u00a0foray into the world of the theater has inspired me to seek further opportunities in film , music videos, and theater,\u00a0just the next step in my creative process.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gaulti<\/em><\/a> creates jewelry and art, his shop is located in Venice, Italy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n