Gaetano Pesce, the late Italian modernist known for his provocative and rambunctious sensibility, was a true polymath and a prolific one at that. Ever experimental, his body of work includes furniture composed of gloopy kaleidoscopic resin, a corporate headquarters in the mid-1990s that was so vibrant and zany that some employees described it as working in a migraine, and a conceptual house from a postapocalyptic future that was a meditation on isolation and the human condition.
"I don’t make things so they appear nice or elegant," Pesce told PIN-UP in a 2021 interview. "I make objects to communicate different stories to people."The majority of Pesce’s work is in museums or private collections, but he also created the occasional public artwork, a medium he appreciated for bringing social commentary into the open and for helping us understand the time in which we live.
