Tramonto a New York Paravento
Light shines over the city as the sun sets on New York. A kaleidoscope of colours streams through the windows of the skyscrapers illuminating the new design screen by Gaetano Pesce.The artist recreates the skyline of the city that never sleeps by pouring coloured resin into moulds in numerous phases to produce, layer by layer, the striking hues of the building facades. This complex, handcrafted process means that no two pieces are ever exactly alike. The uniqueness of each piece is guaranteed by a plaque indicating the year of the project, its sequential production number, the Cassina logo and signature of the artist, Gaetano Pesce.
About Designer | |
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Gaetano Pesce |
Gaetano Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939.
He studied architecture at the IUAV in Venice, and attended the Venice
Institute of Industrial design. At this experimental school, he met Milena
Vettore with whom he opened a studio in Padua, founding in 1959 the “N” Group
which focussed on with studies in programmed art. He carries out research in
the field of kinetic and serial art. He is in the theatre and the cinema,
concerned with lighting, movement and sound as means of expression. Since 1962
he has worked in design, experimenting with new materials and unusual shapes.
In 1971 he collaborated with BracciodiFerro (in the Cassina group) for the
production of certain experimental objects (like Moloch, 1971, a table lamp
blown up to the dimensions of an ironic and emblematic item). In 1972 he took
part in the famous exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” at MoMA in
New York, with a dwelling module. Experimentation and irony are also exhibited
in his projects for Cassina, amongst which the Tramonto a New York sofa (1980)
and the Feltri armchair (1987). After a long period in Paris, he moved to New
York in 1983 and now lives and works there. Examples of his work may be found
in the most important design museums all over the world. |