Gaetano Pesce (born 8 November 1939) is an Italian

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and a design pioneer of the 20th century. Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939, and he grew up in

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and

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. During his 50-year career, Pesce has worked as an architect, urban planner, and industrial designer. His outlook is considered broad and humanistic, and his work is characterized by an inventive use of color and materials, asserting connections between the individual and society, through art, architecture, and design to reappraise mid-twentieth-century modern life.

Architecture career

Pesce studied architecture at the

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, with such notable teachers as

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and Ernesto Rogers. Between 1958 and 1963, Pesce participated in Gruppo N, an early collective concerned with programmed art patterned after the

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. Since the 1960s, Gaetano Pesce has been known to relate art to the design of interiors, products, and architecture. ''

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'' critic

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described Pesce as ''"the architectural equivalent of a brainstorm."'' Pesce's well known work includes ''Organic Building'' in

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, Japan, a Landmark vertical garden building designed to concealing a complex, computer-controlled hydration system to sustain plant growth, and the interior architecture of the Chiat/Day offices, an early workplace ''village'' modeled after urban life. Among Pesce's architecture achievements are Les Halles ACIH (1979) and

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(1985),

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, a complex of forms shaped like a running child. Pesce's prototypical three-dimensional models and architectural drawings are held in the permanent museum collections of MoMA,

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, and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in

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; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; San Francisco Museum of Art,

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, Germany; Danish Museum of Art & Design,

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and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris,

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, and the

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Museum,

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Architecture Projects, selected

* 1980: ''Late Entries to the

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Tower Competition II.'' * 1983: ''Project for rehabilitation of the Lingotto, Turin, Italy, for the Fiat group'' * 1984: ''la Maison des enfants au

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, France'' * 1986: ''Hubin Apartment'',

* 1991: ''

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Offices'', New York * 1993: ''Organic Building'', Osaka, Japan * 1994: ''Shuman Residence'', New York * 1994: ''Art Gallery.'' Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium * 1994: ''Bahia House,

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Industrial design

Since the 1960s, Pesce has researched the function and form of utilitarian and decorative objects, including furniture, jewelry, and shoes, from the perspective of human emotion, environment, and production. Pesce is known for innovative high-minded modern design with wit and style. Pesce has challenged accepted standards of abstraction, uniformity, and homogeneity. On the architect designer, critic Susan Slesin wrote, "For Gaetano Pesce, to be modern is to face the world squarely and use design as a means to comment on it. Pesce has expanded the established notions of

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through the creation functional, imperfect, and warm product design. He connects art and society to design through organic form, for production by

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(formerly C & B Italia), Vitra, Cassina, and fabric design, such as ''People'' (1987), composed of 570 different figures, all of which incorporate ideas about variation and diversity in contemporary society. Pesce's iconic feminist armchair - a fulsome bulbous form and attached ball-shaped ottoman - alternately referred to as La Mamma, Big Mama, Donna, and Up chair - continues to inspire interpretation nearly 50 years after its creation. According to curator and author of SuperDesign, Maria Cristina Didero, "Pesce wanted to produce something about the condition of women in the world. The chair can be read as the mother, and the stool her child. But it could also be a ball and chain uggestingwoman and the prison she was obliged to live in." Pesce is perhaps best known for his work with resin, molds, and casting techniques used to create objects, including vases, chairs, lamps and the two-dimensional reliefs that the designer calls “industrial skins.” Since 1987, he has infused ordinary materials with experimental additives, such as liquid plant resin, and worked with foam and urethane, simplify the manufacturing processes and adapt limited industrial capabilities. Pesce credits the early influence of his student work with three venerable Murano glassmakers — Moretti, Vistosi, and Venini — whose casting techniques for informing his label-defying works of sculpture, furniture, vessels and paintings. Even Pesce's own experimentation in glassmaking has led to inventive techniques and highly original results. Pesce has even used urethane resin to create necklaces, bracelets, brooches, and rings. For Pesce, the design and development of portable goods have always incorporated craft-specialization, history, humor, and the human need for connection. Pesce's industrial design techniques such as ''diversified series production'' is a process by which he experiments with materials using a craft manufacturing sensibility applied to mass production methodology. On the production line, for example, factory workers vary proportions to produce a series of objects with a "one of a kind" quality. Socio-political messaging is found in Pesce's collections, such as "Nobody’s Perfect" (2002) by Zerodisegno, and the 2010 series of irregularly shaped tables for Cassina, which together form the recognizable shape of a boot shape, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, and celebrate human diversity and connection, as well as one-of-a-kind pieces like “America Table” (2012), with a red-white-and-blue resin tabletop American flag supported on letters that spell “independence,” and “Verbal Abuse” (1994), a tall, grided lamp that bends forward with attachable weights. Pesce's unconventional mixed-media industrial design and organic forms collected in major museums across the world ascribe the work to the realm of art. A 2014 retrospective exhibition ''The Time of Diversity'' at the MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts,

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, charted the artfulness of Pesce's product design from the 1960s to the present. Recent exhibitions such as “What it is to be Human,” at The Peninsula Chicago, Art Basel in Hong Kong, and an artist-in-resident program at Peninsula Beijing, all featuring works by Gaetano Pesce that expand the renown artist and architect's history of public commitment to the arts. In 2016, Pesce unveiled a site-specific sculpture "Majesty Betrayed" in Piazza Santa Maria Novella. The monumental female figure wrapped in a long cloak by Pesce was inspired by the Christian Maestà iconography of the Madonna on the Throne - the highly venerated Madonna Rucellai by Duccio di Boninsegna (1285), in

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and later moved in the twentieth century the

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. Pesce's sculpture entitled "Porta Ritratti" (2018) for the Milan Fuorisalone was exhibited at the entrance of the

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of Fine Arts, and later, the 13th edition of Design Miami / Basel. The ambitious installation - a chair measuring over 13-feet (4-meters) high representing 20 human faces - according to Pesce, " is a Trojan horse that penetrates the Rocca dell'Arte making victims among the old mentality." The work is another compelling tribute to cultural diversity within society.

Gallery and museum exhibitions

Pesce's architecture and design has been published, exhibited, and collected internationally and included in the permanent collections of museums around the world.

Solo exhibitions

* 1975: ''Gaetano Pesce, Le futur est peut-être passé''("Gaetano Pesce, The future is perhaps past"): Centre de Création Industrielle, Etablissement Public du Centre Beaubourg, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris * 1983: ''Gaetano Pesce : a

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Exhibition.'' * 1986: ''Gaetano Pesce 1975–1985''.

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, France. * 1988: ''Gaetano Pesce: Drawings, Models, Prototypes.''

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Gallery, New York * 1988: ''Modern Times Again.''

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Design Partnership, New York, New York * 1989: ''Gaetano Pesce: Steelcase design partnership.'' Max Protech Galleryt, New York * 1989: ''Gaetano Pesce : produire industriellement la différence.'' UQAM, Centre de design, Montréal, Canada * 1991: ''Gaetano Pesce. Collaborative Exhibition.''

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, Israel; Peter Joseph Gallery, New York * 1996: ''Gaetano Pesce Le temps des questions, retrospective.'' Forum of the

, Paris, France. * 1997: ''Gaetano Pesce,'' Material Connection, New York, N.Y. * 1997: ''Currents 69: GAETANO PESCE.'' Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO. * 1997: ''Gaetano Pesce.'' The Gallery Mourmans, Zoute * 1998: ''The presence of objets--Gaetano Pesce.'' Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts * 1999: ''Gaetano Pesce: The Presence of the Objects.'' Columbia GSAPP,

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Center for the Study of American Architecture. * 2002: Musée des Arts Décoratifs,

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, Paris, France. * 2005: ''Gaetano Pesce: Pushing the Limits.'' Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. * 2005: ''Gaetano Pesce: Il rumore del tempo.''

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, Milan, Italy. * 2005: ''H2O. Gaetano Pesce.''

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(IVAM) * 2007: ''Pink Pavilion di Gaetano Pesce,''

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* 2010: ''Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle.'' Italian Cultural Institute of

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, California. * 2011: ''L’Italia in Croce di Gaetano Pesce.''

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Italian Pavilion, Italian Cultural Institute of New York. * 2013: ''Gaetano Pesce: L'Abbraccio.'' Fred Torres Collaborations, New York * 2013: ''Gaetano Pesce Retrospective.'' Collective.1 Design Fair, Pier 57, New York, N.Y. * 2014: ''Gaetano Pesce: Il tempo della diversità.'' una retrospettiva, MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome. * 2014:''Transforming Reality: Italian Design Innovation and Fantasy.'' Eagle Gallery,

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, Armenia * 2014: ''Gaetano Pesce: Retrospective.'' Sotheby's Gallery Charpentier,

. * 2015: ''Frammenti e figure architettoniche ai quattro angoli del mondo.'' Galleria Antonia Jannone, Milano, Italy. * 2015: ''Gaetano Pesce: ‘One of a Kind Iconic Works, 1967-2015.'' Allouche Gallery, New York * 2015: ''Gaetano Pesce: For Her.'' Reinstein Ross Gallery, 30 Gansevoort Street, NYC * 2015: ''Performance nell’installazione : La Cucina Luogo di Passione.''

Design Museum, Milan, Italy. * 2015: ''Gaetano Pesce: Frammenti e figure architettoniche ai quattro angoli del mondo.'' Galleria Antonia Jannone, Milan, Italy * 2016: ''Fish Design'', Maison & Objet, Paris * 2016: ''Gaetano Pesce: Molds (Gelati Misti)'' MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles * 2016: ''Gaetano Pesce 'Gli Armadi Parlanti' ('The Speaking Cabinets')'' Salon 94,

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* 2017: ''Gaetano Pesce : architettura e fugurazione.'' Complesso Museale di Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy *2019: ''Gaetano Pesce: Workingallery'', Salon 94 Design, New York *2019: ''Gaetano Pesce: Age of Contaminations''. Friedman Benda, New York *2021: “Nobody's Perfect: Pesce's First Solo”, Sea World Arts and Culture Center, Shenzhen, China

Group exhibitions and programs

* 1972: ''The New Domestic Landscape: Achievements and Problems of Italian Design.''

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, May 26 to September 11, 1972. :::''Architecture on Film: Italy – The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972 + Q&A with Gaetano Pesce and Peter Lang.'' * 1975: ''The Future Is Perhaps Past.'' Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France. * 1979: ''Transformations in Modern Architecture.'' MoMA, New York. * 1981: ''Furniture by architects : contemporary chairs, tables and lamps.'' Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. * 1986: ''L'eau en formes (Water forms): Vittel Design 86.'' Centre Georges Pompidou,

. * 1991: ''Masterworks.'' Peter Joseph Gallery, New York. * 1995: ''Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design.''

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, New York, N.Y. * 1997: ''Designed for Delight: Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts,'' travel exhibition. :::

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, OH;

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, Canada; ::: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France. * 1998: ''International New Glass 1998: Venezia aperto vetro.'' Fortuny Museum, Doge's Palace, :::and Istituto Statale d'Arte di Venezia,

. * 2002: ''Mod to Memphis : design in colour 1960s-80s''. Powerhouse Pub, Sydney * 2003: ''Inside Design Now.'' Triennial of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York. * 2003: ''US Design: 1975–2000,'' travel exhibition.

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; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art,

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, Miami; :::Museum of Art & Design, (formerly

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), New York, N.Y. *2008: ''Formless Furniture.''

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* 2008: ''Dreamland: Architectural Experiments Since the 1970s.'' MoMA, New York, N.Y. * 2012: ''Design Miami.'' * 2013: ''Pop Art Design.''

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, Stockholm, Sweden. * 2016: ''Tempting Art: Edible gems''. Whitechapel Gallery, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg * 2015: ''New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America,''

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* 2015: ''Kitchens & Invaders.'' VIII

Design Museum, Viale Emilio Alemagna. Milan, Italy. *2019: ''Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today''. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany. *2021: “No more silent object”. Salon94 Gallery, New York.

Academic experience

For 28 years, Pesce taught architectural design at the

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(INSA) (National Institute of Applied Sciences),

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, China; Escola da Cidade, (AEAUSP), (Architectural School of São Paulo),

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, Columbus, Ohio; and in New York, since 1980, at the Cooper Union.

Professional recognition

* 1975: ''Special Prize: Genesi?'' Fourth International Lighting Design Competition * 1993: '' Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design.'' * 1995: ''

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Magazine Award for ''Umbrella'' chair.'' * 2004: ''Good Design Award.'' The

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Museum of Architecture And Design * 2005: ''Collab's Design Excellence Award.'' Philadelphia Museum of Art * 2006: ''Designer of the Year.'' A&W Architektur und Wohnens, Cologne,

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* 2009: ''Lawrence J. Israel Prize.'' Interior Design Department of the

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, New York, N.Y. * 2010: IIC ''Lifetime Achievement Award.'' Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles

Literature

* ''Gaetano Pesce: A Yale School of architecture Exhibition'', New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. * Maeira Yagid-Haimovich, ''Gaetano Pesce: Multi-Disciplinary Work'', Tel Aviv; New York: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Peter Joseph Gallery, 1991. * ''Gaetano Pesce: Cinq Techniques Pour La Verre'', Marseille: Musee de Marseille, 1992. * ''Gaetano Pesce: Le Temps des Questions'', Paris: Centre G. Pompidou, 1996. * ''Gaetano Pesce'', Belgium: The Gallery Mourmans, 1997. * Marisa Bartolucci and Raul Cabra, ''Gaetano Pesce'', San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003. * ''Il Rumore del . Tempo Gaetano Pesce'', Milan: Carta; Triennale di Milano, 2004–2005. * Maria Luisa Caffarelli, ''Gaetano Pesce "Nobody's perfect": plastica e design'', Alessandria, Italy: Citta di Alessandria, 2005. * Silvana Annicchiarico, ''Gaetano Pesce: Pink Pavillion'', Milan: Electa; Triennale di Milan, 2008. * Francesca Valente, ''Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle'', 2010 * ''Gaetano Pesce: Six Tables on Water'', David Gill, 2012. * Gianni Mercurio and Domitilla Dardi, ''Gaetano Pesce: Il Tempo Della Diversità: catalogo della mostra'', Milan: Electa, 2014. * Carlo Martino, ''Gaetano Pesce: Materia e differnza'', Marsilio, 2007. * Laura and Matthew Bannister : Out in the world with Gaetano Pesce, New York, 2021.

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