Familiar visuals are reinterpreted through inventive perspectives by artist emilio_villalba on 10 hand-painted Valentino Garavani #VSLING bags, available for preorder during Miami Art Basel at the Design District Boutique alongside a signed and numbered lithograph by the artist. ⁣ ⁣ To delve deeper into the project, Colby Mugrabi of minniemuse offers her insight: - Painter Emilio Villalba’s artistic oeuvre is best categorized by his striking ability to introduce familiar visuals into a creative world of the unknown. Through this recontextulization, Villalba cultivates powerful artistic narratives based around the themes of creation, existence, and destruction. Symbols of life and death – including eyes, lips, vegetation, fire and cigarettes – are prevalent throughout Villalba’s work, often juxtaposed aside one another to create purposeful and challenging dialogues begging viewers to question what is natural and what constitutes the unfamiliar and artificial.⁣ ⁣ Photo by scotti.leonardo...