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Friday, November 18, 2005
Gaetano Pesce: Pushing the Limits
Philadelphia Museum of Art: November 18, 2005 - April 9, 2006
Known for his innovative designs incorporating nonstandard production processes and the latest materials developed through new technology, Gaetano Pesce (b. 1939) will collaborate with the Philadelphia Museum of Art this fall in creating his first museum exhibition in the United States in nearly a decade.
Pesce’s multidisciplinary work in design, visual art, architecture, and planning can be unpredictable--like his resin furniture "customized" in form and color according to the choices of the artisan and the chance flow of pigmented materials within the molds. Italian writer Gillo Dorfles has said that Pesce has "made the world a less conformist place" with his objects that pit the conflicting values and means of handicraft against those of industry. ...