Barman Object- BARMAN-O

Barman Object is the section and the activity of Barman architects. It aims to promote the best results of collaborations among architects, artists, and craftsmen.

The general purpose is to pursue virtuous contamination of the arts through the creation of objects poised between art, architecture, and design whose value lies in the high level of craftsmanship of the product.

Ceramic Age is the first of a series of exhibitions set up and organized by the architectural practice Barman in Venice. Together with the common passion for plastic modeling, the collaboration with the artist Filadelfio gave rise to the production of a limited series of monochromatic ceramic pieces, a creative synthesis of an exchange of forms and ideas between architects and craftsmen.

Ceramic Age

One of the first projects that led to the creation of the new series of design objects is Ceramic Age. In this case, Barman architects collaborated with the artist Filadelfio. Barman architects have supported the artist and created the chain of the new communication. Barman architects have organized the presentation of the Ceramic Age objects with the inauguration in the exhibition space in Venice.

About Ceramic Age

Ceramic art has always had primary importance and a wide diffusion because it linked everyday objects to decorative masterpieces. Sicily, the place of origin of the artist Filadefio Todaro, has an important tradition in the production of ceramics. 

Filadelfio, in the Ceramic Age exhibition, presents a selection of sculptures that, while drawing on the artisan tradition of Santo Stefano di Camastra, reinvents its forms and contents starting from a completely personal linguistic code. His works, thanks to their plastic, symbolic and conceptual value, is an example of how ceramics is highly sensitive to recording the artist’s research and experimentation.

The exhibition focuses on a selection of nine pieces, of various formats, from the personal production of Filadelfio, and four works resulting from the collaboration with Barman Architects made with pottery and acrylic. Monochrome is chosen to bring out the sinuous lines through a clever play of tonal contrasts created by the light that reaches and reflects on the surface of the object.