Soft Baroque: Inox Detox, 18 May 2023 — 11 Aug 2023
Exhibitions

Soft Baroque: Inox Detox

Barbati Gallery, Palazzo Lezze, Campo Santo Stefano 2949, 30124, Venice, Italy

There are certain architectural and hardware typologies that seemed to have reached a dead end. The stainless steel handrail has become a ubiquitous silver worm in institutions and homes. It is an object that strives to have no aesthetic, practically and culturally hygienic. For us it represents the pervasiveness of a certain brand of corporate modernism, desperate to create value but not offend, a hollow snake silently constricting stairways and balconies indefinitely.

Inox Detox is a series of pieces using standard stainless steel tubes, rotary laser cut and bent. The handrail material is taken to more extreme conclusions, escaping the dead end.

Traditional log furniture is defined by its construction technique, round mortice and tenon, and rustic raw material, small logs. We are bisecting this definition by using square and planed timber rather than round wood. “Square Log” furniture is a pathetic gesture to force us to come to terms with our pathological role as fixers of the nature.

Contacts & Details

OPENING TIMES:

Tue – Sun 11am – 1pm; 2pm – 7pm

CLOSING DAYS:

Mon

ADMISSION:

Free

T: +39 340 6506094
M: info@barbatigallery.com
Website

ADDRESS
Barbati Gallery, Palazzo Lezze, Campo Santo Stefano 2949, 30124, Venice, Italy

ESTABLISHED
2023
Instagram
My Art Guides Art Spaces’ Dashboard
Update your art space’s profile with all current and upcoming shows and keep yourselves on the map