“Creativity and Craftsmanship” exhibition within the Homo Faber event

The “Creativity and Craftsmanship” exhibition, mounted in the extraordinary space of the Cenacolo Palladiano in Venice, stages a series of specially commissioned works, created by pairs of artist-artisans and designers. Nine European designers (Ingo Maurer, Martine Bedin, Adam Lowe, Ugo La Pietra, Martino Gamper, Alfred Häberli, Piotr Sierakowski, Oscar Tusquet Blanca and Marcel Wanders) have collaborated with the same number of art maestros to create original works expressing traditional skills reworked in contemporary forms. Inlay, mosaic, cabinet-making and blown glass are just some of the techniques collected together in the exhibition.
The nine works are interpretations of a single theme: the object with an interior. Michele De Lucchi explains: “Working on the boundary between architecture, design and art, designers and master craftsmen have given material form to the intrinsic meanings that an “object with an interior” can express, through research into the themes of volume, surface, weight, perception of exterior and interior, realisation technique, material value and movement. The final pieces contain in themselves the research that has generated them and express all the preciousness of the container and its contents”.
The layout design is composed of conical wooden constructions, hand-built by carpenters according to a modular scheme. These constructions are themselves “objects with an interior” that protect the works and take visitors into the atmosphere of hand-crafted production. The lights fixed onto the tops of the cones embellish the pieces, positioned on pedestals at the correct height.