Exhibition of jewelry and photographs 1.7. – 29.7.2011
Monica Maestrelli was born and raised in Florence, Italy. Her professional career as a designer began inside the well-known Superstudio, an avant-garde architecture and design studio. In 1983 she started working as a gift designer for GUCCI. Between 1994 to 2004 she worked with the art director Tom Ford as senior designer for the new Gucci Home & Jewelry Collection. In 2008 she decidd to design and produce her own jewelry collection. Today she lives and works between Tuscany, Italy and New York.
At the combined exhibition with her husband Frank Dituri in Gallery KusKovu Monica Maestrelli will present her own jewelry collection including a limited edition made especially for her Prague show.
Frank Dituri, who also divides his time between Italy and New York, is a photographer who likes to transform the obvious into images that border on uncertainty and mystery. His work has been exhibited worldwide throughout the United States, Europe, Russia and Asia with sole shows at the Venice Biennial and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
The idea of project In Presenza, to a large extent, is based on the writings of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell and the concept of the “hero’s journey.” Frank Dituri’s photographs are flashbacks of his childhood memories and dreams. The figures in his images are often in a subliminal voyage into the subconscious.
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