Irene Montini and Rocco Gurrieri are an Italian visual artist duo born in 2017. With a strong visual identity linked to painterly and cinematographic imagery, they create editorial photographs, fashion brand campaigns, fashion films, short films, animations and documentaries in collaboration with Italian foundations such as Rai Teche and Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Their first solo photography and video exhibition, “Incanto”, opened to the public in September 2020 at the Novecento Museum in Florence, followed by group exhibitions at the Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Galerie Joseph le Palais in Paris and the Fattori Museum in Livorno. In 2023 they win the main prize at FGUK festival by Cinemazero with the fashion film “Look back Anouk” produced by Ferragamo. Meanwhile, they have been curating the Salvatore Ferragamo archive since 2018.
Among their clients: Gucci Osteria, Disney Studios, Ferragamo, Luisa via Roma, Polimoda, Nike, Ferragamo, Reebok Saint Barth, Bompiani, Aquazzurra, Barbara Rizzi, J.Salinas, Très Tilda, Alessandro Gaggio, Hybrid, Ugo Poggi, Bally, The Flexx, Bally, Stella Jean, La Carrie, Emmanuelle Vee, New Line Academy, Antolina, Tipstudio, Meme by Giabs, Atma Maison, Sarambamba, Ditonellapiaga, Maga Archivio.
Editorials and Publications: Vogue Italy, Vogue Adria, Sleek magazine, Schön magazine, Contributor magazine, Art tribune, Flash art, Vice, ID, Red Eye World, The Collector, Heal Magazine, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Marie-Claire, La nazione, Finestre sull’arte, Super Maps! Korea, Loom-est, Navel magazine, Just magazine, Pap magazine, FGUK Magazine, Soma magazine, WPRD magazine, Electa editore.
“The colorful, detailed sets, the overlying music and the extremely present styling in Irene and Rocco’s works plays with the feeling of inner turmoil, evoking feelings akin to the bewilderment of dreams”.
Anna McKenzie, Sleekmagazine, 2019.
