Gaetano Pesce: Fish in Australia
Neon Parc is thrilled to present a two-part exhibition with renowned architect, artist and designer Gaetano Pesce (b. Italy, 1939), to be premiered at Neon Parc City, between 4鈥�27 May and the Melbourne Design Fair, 18鈥�21 May, 2023.
Gaetano Pesce emerged from the Italian Radical Design movement of the 1960s. The Florence-based group of designers and architects produced era-defining furnishings and products that looked to youth culture and the personality-driven ethos of the art world at the time. It was a forward-looking rebellion against the consumer-oriented industrial perfection of 20th-century Modernism.
His unique approach to social critique through expressive forms and atypical materials can be traced to his first major line of furniture: his Up series, released with B&B Italia in 1969. His most famous work from the series, UP5_6 鈥� also known as La Mamma 鈥� is a curvaceous armchair with ample, feminine proportions reminiscent of the Venus of Willendorf.
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Neon Parc is thrilled to present a two-part exhibition with renowned architect, artist and designer Gaetano Pesce (b. Italy, 1939), to be premiered at Neon Parc City, between 4鈥�27 May and the Melbourne Design Fair, 18鈥�21 May, 2023.
Gaetano Pesce emerged from the Italian Radical Design movement of the 1960s. The Florence-based group of designers and architects produced era-defining furnishings and products that looked to youth culture and the personality-driven ethos of the art world at the time. It was a forward-looking rebellion against the consumer-oriented industrial perfection of 20th-century Modernism.
His unique approach to social critique through expressive forms and atypical materials can be traced to his first major line of furniture: his Up series, released with B&B Italia in 1969. His most famous work from the series, UP5_6 鈥� also known as La Mamma 鈥� is a curvaceous armchair with ample, feminine proportions reminiscent of the Venus of Willendorf.
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