Carwan Gallery presents OMG-GMO, a much-anticipated new commission by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler, at the gallery's flagship space in Piraeus. More than two years in the making, the project is a series of whimsical ceramic functional objects, handmade by the leading Italian, family-owned ceramics company BITOSSI Ceramiche. A preview of the project took place last fall, inside Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House pavilion in New Canaan, Connecticut, and during Milan Fuorisalone 2023. OMG-GMO is exclusively available for acquisitions through Carwan Gallery.
 

For the OMG-GMO project, Robert Stadler borrows the forms of these engineered fruit and vegetables to create ten ceramic, hand-painted objects that ironically transform the organic into something structural and functional. Conceived as a series of small-scale monuments, these objects both criticise and mock human manipulation of nature: a slice of a Japanese rectangular seedless watermelon becomes a stool, zucchini bend in a perfect L shape to create a set of shelves, and wheel-like aubergines support a glass coffee table, as a reference to Gae Aulenti's Tavolo con Ruote. Each object transforms a fruit or vegetable in a functional and clever way, with the master ceramicists at BITOSSI copying in detail their colour and texture