# @maisonvalentino on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B5fTM6-I8T0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12024634-maisonvalentino-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/d74be0b174.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-11-30T12:09:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Valentino (@maisonvalentino) — https://gondola.cc/maisonvalentino

## Caption

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. ⁣
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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.⁣
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Photo by scotti.leonardo in palazzomonti, a residence which promotes and fosters the work of young creative talents. #EmilioVillalbaXValentinoGaravani

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vsling, emiliovillalbaxvalentinogaravani

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