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Gaetano Pesce, Montanara Couch
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Gaetano Pesce (8 November 1939 – 3 April 2024)
Pescetrullo, Carovigno, Italy,
Italian artist Gaetano Pesce was commissioned to interpret a hectare of olive trees in Carovigno countryside, in Puglia, Italy by creating a series of playful holiday homes.
Commissioned by Caterina Tognon of Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporaneo, the two mini houses are the portrait of the gallerist and her husband with faces full of expression – pink for her and blue for him.
Together with architects Gabriele Pimpini and Cosimo Cardone of Studio Talent, Gaetano Pesce created a playful example of contemporary architecture in a context saturated in history, effortlessly straddling the worlds of visual art and contemporary design.
The houses are clad in tinted polyurethane, a versatile material readily used for insulation purposes. Pesce’s work has often concentrated on the research of new materials, having experimented with polyurethane since the 1970s.
‘Pescetrullo’ has become one of the most innovative examples of polyurethane used in a permanent architectural setting, which affords the houses with passive thermal properties. As a result, they require virtually little heating during winter and conversely, cooling in summer.
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Vases in soft resin by Gaetano Pesce, 1995
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Gaetano Pesce (8 November 1939 – 3 April 2024)
Moving against the stream of rational, functional modernism in the 1960s and early 70s, Mr. Pesce experimented with materials and production methods to create furniture pieces imbued with political or religious meaning for brands from Cassina to B&B Italia.
Many would go on to become icons of Italian design including the Up5 chair – an innovative vacuum-packed chair designed to resemble a female prisoner – which he designed for B&B Italia precursor C&B.
Pesce moved to New York in 1983 and began to move away from mass production to create "standardised series" in everyday materials like resin, adapting conventional production techniques to create varied and imperfect outcomes.
The result are pieces such as the 1884 Pratt chair, which toe the line between functional design and decorative art, helping to create a new category that would later become collectible design.
Mr. Pesce was born in the Italian city of La Spezia in November 1939, only two months after the start of world war two.
As was common at the time, he trained in both architecture and design, studying first at the University of Venice and later at the Venice Institute of Industrial Design.
Among his architecture projects is the Organic Building in Osaka from 1993, with its plant-covered facade made of orange fiberglass that served as a precursor to today's vegetation-covered green walls.
But Mr. Pesce's most pioneering and well-known work happened in the world of design. In the late 1960s, he became one of the leaders of Italy's Radical Design movement, rejecting modernism's rigid focus on forms dictated by function.
Instead, Pesce focused on the idea that functional objects, much like art, could carry a deeper message.
One of the most famous examples is the controversial Up5 chair from 1969, which manufacturer B&B Italia describes as "the first product of Italian design with a political meaning".
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"Up 5 & 6" Dressed Up Chair & Ottoman, 1969 – 2014, Polyurethane foam, fabric, Height: 40.5 in (102.87 cm)Width: 47 in (119.38 cm)Depth: 51 in (129.54 cm)Seat Height: 16 in (40.64 cm),
“Square Airport Lamp” (1986/1994). Photography by Elizabeth Carababas/The Future Perfect. Light sculpture consisting of a flexible rubber membrane studded with small light bulbs. Although made from a mold, no two lamps are alike, due to the imperfections that arise from the hand-mixing and pouring of colored urethane. H 92 - W 65 Cm,
"Feltri" Armchair for Cassina, 1980 -1989, Felt, Fabric, Resin, Width: 156 cm, Depth: 80 cm, Height: 129 cm, Seat height:42 cm, Courtesy: Oldera,
"Pratt Chair #7," 1984 2018 (purple), 2018, Transparent polyurethane, :93 x 53 x 53 cm. (36.6 x 20.9 x 20.9 in.),
"The Cabinet of The Tired Man," 2018, Photo: Courtesy of Salon 94 Design and Gaetano Pesce,
"Tramonto a New York" three-door screen, for Cassina, Made of coloured resin, hinges and feet in burnished brass, Width: 221, Height: 199,
"Organic" Building, Osaka, Japan, Completed in 1993 to embody the corporate ideal of Oguraya Yamamoto Co., Ltd,
"La In-Portante" Modular Bookshelf from the "Abbraccio" Series, 2010. Comprising 57 adjustable polyurethane resin shelves. Produced by Le Fablier, Italy. Polyurethane resin, painted wood, lacquered metal, 86½ x 118¾ x 16⅞ in. (219.7 x 301.6 x 42.6 cm) Courtesy of Sotheby's,
La Michetta Modular Sofa,Compostion of 8 by Meritalia, Structure in Lacquered Wood Seat with Elastic Belts, Flexible Polyurethane & Fiberfill Padding, Dimensions: W370 x D245cm,
Unique 'Ireland' table, Made of polyurethane and metal. The table was made and exhibited in 1996 by Gallery Mourmans, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium. It was part of a series of 'EU tables', where all 15 member countries were represented as a table, in this case Ireland. The top of the table has the shape of the outlines of the country and it stands on legs in the shape of question marks. W.80.71 in;H.28.74 in;D.57.09 in; (W.205 cm;H.73 cm;D.145 cm), Courtesy: Incollect.
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Gaetano Pesce | Deloudis
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Gaetano Pesce,
Door from TBWA/Chiat/Day Offices,
New York. 1994,
Resin, Steel, Aluminum,
84 h × 34 w × 8 d in.
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Piero Golia - Christmas Painting #2
Upholstery from Gaetano Pesce’s chair ‘la mamma’, aluminum stretcher bars, 51 × 41 cm, 2013
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Gaetano Pesce
Organic Building, Osaka, Giappone, 1993.
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Fauteuil Big Mama par Gaetano Pesce
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Design is a state of mind
Martino Gamper
a cura di Martino Gamper, Rebecca Lewin, Jochen Volz e Melissa Larner. Design: Åbäke e Alex Rich
Serpentine Galleries / Koenig Books, London 2014, italiano/inglese, 96 pagine, ISBN 978-3863355418
euro 60,00
email if you want to buy [email protected]
Design is a state of mind: l’esposizione mette in luce la storia degli oggetti di design e del loro impatto sulla nostra vita con un’ampia selezione di sistemi di scaffalatura dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Muovendosi in un raggio che comprende classici del design storico, pezzi unici, lavori di design industriale e funzionale contemporanei, o comunque commissionati recentemente, saranno esposti i progetti di Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass, Ercol, Giò Ponti e IKEA. Ogni elemento espositivo verrà utilizzato per organizzare ed esporre collezioni di oggetti dagli archivi personali di amici e colleghi di Gamper, oltre ad un’ampia biblioteca di pubblicazioni sui mobili contemporanei da tutto il mondo.
Per l’occasione verranno inoltre realizzate nuove scaffalature di Michael Marriott e dello stesso Martino Gamper, co-prodotte dalla Serpentine Gallery, Museion e dalla Pinacoteca Agnelli.
“Non esiste un design perfetto e non c’è un ultra design. Gli oggetti ci parlano in maniera personale. Alcuni dovrebbero essere più funzionali di altri e l’impatto emozionale che hanno su di noi rimane molto individuale. La mostra mette in evidenza un modo molto personale di collezionare e raccogliere oggetti, con pezzi che raccontano una storia.”
Martino Gamper
Mostra Serpentine Galleries London (05/03- 21/04/2014) e la Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli Torino (24/10/14 – 01/03/2015).
14/12/23
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I Feltri (1987).
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Vases in soft resin by Gaetano Pesce, 1995
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"Nobody’s Perfect Chair" Collection,
Gaetano Pesce, published by Zerodisegno in 2003,
Polyurethane resin and molded plastic dyed in yellow, black and yellow, black and blue, green... mass.
Length : 19.69 in / 50 cm, Height : 35.43 in / 90 cm, Width : 17.72 in / 45 cm
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