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Repossi / Robert Mapplethorpe For this collection, Gaia Repossi was inspired by more than 150 of the artist’s references kept in the archives of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York. These are mainly necklaces made of “bits of nothing” as Robert Mapplethorpe liked to call them: shells, pearls, crab claws, nails, dice, engine parts, among others, that he assembled between 1965 and 1968 in New York. Patti Smith, his muse and companion at the time, was the first to wear his creations. This research led Gaia to take an interest in other elements of the photographer’s work as well: his drawings, collages and three-dimensional works. For the Repossi / Robert Mapplethorpe collection, Repossi preserved the style and aesthetic that are characteristic of Mapplethorpe’s work, what Gaia calls “lateral symmetry”: the accumulation and balance of volumes, as well as the play of contrasts. The collection consists of pieces divided into seven themes, whose names refer to major themes in the work of Robert Mapplethorpe: Jetty, Dagger, Black x Cross, Bullseye, Relic, Chain, and Americana Eagle.