Gaetano Pesce

Gaetano Pesce was born in 1939 in La Spezia, Italy. In 1963 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Venice.

He is the most artistic of all Italian designers.

He marries the logic of large-scale production and contained cost, with unique and irreproducible objects; in this way, he makes art accessible to everyone.

"Each artist expresses himself with the materials of his time, I use resin."

Pesce produced 10,000 different types of vases made of this material, resin. He was one of the leaders of the Italian 'radical' group of the 1960's, when he experimented with new materials, such as polyurethane foam. His departure from commercially-viable production methods and materials continues today, as he continues to experiment.

Principal exhibitions of his works include "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972; his one-man show "Le future est peut-être passé?" at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of the Louvre in 1975; and "Architecture et industrie" at the Centre Pompidou in 1984.

Many of Pesce's works are part of permanent collections of major museums: the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Musée des Arts Decoratifs and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museo D'Arte Moderna in Turin.