area 119 – gaetano pesce
presentazione/introduction Going against the current testo Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial The noise of time Silvana Annicchiarico letture critiche/critical lectures The Pesce mode / Michael Sorkin The design of …
Going against the current
To exercise the profession and art that Gaetano Pesce makes his livelihood from, and to live it to the fullest, takes a visionary and thus revolutionary ability that is a combination between the craftsman’s pragmatism and the artist’s poetic imaginatio …
The noise of time
If asked to suggest a figure capable of summarizing, synthetically and paradigmatically, the work of Gaetano Pesce, I would not hesitate: I would say the oxymoron. The coexistence of opposites. All the design activities of Gaetano Pesce – whether on th …
The Pesce mode
Senza Fine Unica, Meritalia, 2010 At an exhibition of work by Carlo Scarpa years ago I was especially taken by the margins of his working drawings. These were covered with doodles, frequently of female bodies, and by periodic blots that turned out to …
The design of politics, culture and chance
Brent Lewis: What in your opinion is the key mission of design today? Gaetano Pesce: The time is right for an object to express more than beauty, nice form, and function. Objects have the potential to express points of view. They can have the character …
The perfection of imperfection – an apartment in Paris
“When we talk about an interior, if you go somewhere familiar, nothing happens because you know it already, and there is nothing to move your brain to understand something different”, says Italian-born architect and designer Gaetano Pesce. “But new thi …
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Abstraction proceeds by degrees. Every representation both pares and substitutes, proposing a way of seeing as well as a vision of its object. Painting and drawing – whether Lascaux or Leonardo – confronts the primary abstraction of worldly depiction: …
Golgotha chair
The Golgotha suite is a reference to Bible history – to the passion of Christ and The Last Supper – reminding us of the sacramental value that objects had in traditional society, where every table was ultimately an altar and every meal an actualization …
Tramonto/Notturno a New York
Sunset in New York Some time ago, we were in New York and I found that this powerful city had grown less stimulating; I was less impressed. I asked myself whether New York was not entering a phase of decadence like those experienced by other cities (…) …