Gaetano Pesce

GAETANO PESCE

Gaetano Pesce was born in La Spezia, Italy in 1939 and studied Architecture at the University of Venice. He has lived in New York for the past 32 years. Pesce has worked on private and public projects in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He taught at the Institut d’Architecture e d’Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg, France, at the Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA, at the Domus Academy in Milan, at the Polytechnic of Hong Kong, at the Architectural School of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and at The Cooper Union in New York City. Pesce exhibits his work worldwide. In 1996, the Pompidou Centre in Paris presented an exhibition that showcased 40 years of his work. In 2005, the Triennale di Milano organized a retrospective of his work, which was also shown at the Vitra Museum in Germany. Pesce’s most well-known architectural commissions include the Hubin’s Apartment in Paris (1986), the Organic Building in Osaka (1989-93), the Shuman’s residence in New York (1994) The city of Osaka, declared Pesce’s Organic Building, with its vertical garden upon the façade as a ‘civic landmark’ in 1994 and the Manhattan office for advertising agency TWBA/Chiat Day, was hailed by the New York Times as ‘a remarkable work of art ... that bears no resemblance to the sleek, hard- edged aesthetic we associate with the modern.

1939 Born in La Spezia, Italy. Currently lives and works in New York City.

MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Museum, New York, USA Denver Museum, USA Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, Italy Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris, France Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Canada Musée Keski Suomen, Helsinki, Finland Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA Triennale Design Museum, Milano, Italy Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Vitra Design Museum, Weil an Rhein, Germany Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, USA

AWARDS IIC Lifetime Achievement Awards, Los Angeles 2010 Lawrence J. Israel Prize, Fashion Institute of Technology , New York 2009 Designer of the Year, “A&W Architektur and Wohnen”, Cologne 2006 Design Excellence Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2005 Good Design Award for “Nobody’s perfect” collection, Chicago 2003 Interior Design Magazine Award for the chair “Umbrella”, 1995 Chrysler Award for Innovation and Design, 1993 Special Prize: Genesi, prototype, lighting object sent to the fourth International lighting design competition organixed by Yamagiwa, Tokyo 1973 Honorable Mention at the Locarno Film Festival for the film "Irreversione", Locarno, Switzerland, 1968

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Milano, Italy | Triennale Design Museum | L’Italia in croce di Gaetano Pesce Torino, Italy | Novalis Contemporary Art | Il fascino dell’imperfezione

2010 Milano, Italy | Triennale di Milano | L’abbraccio 2010 Los Angeles, CA | Italian Cultural Institute | Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle

2007/8 Milano, Italy | Triennale Bovisa | Pink Pavilion

2006 Torino, Italy | Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea | Il mondo del Design – Gaetano Pesce

2006 Verona, Italy | FAMA Gallery | Gaetano Pesce

2003 Moss Gallery, New York, USA, Musee des arts decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France | Nobody’s Perfect, traveling exhibition

1999 New York, NY | Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery, Columbia University | The Presence of Objects: Gaetano Pesce

1998 Montreal, Canada | Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Columbia University | The Presence of Objects: Gaetano Pesce

1997 New York, NY | Material Connexion Gallery | Is the future now? Gaetano Pesce: Material Explorations

1996 Paris, France | Centre Pompidou | Gaetano Pesce — Les temps des questions

1992/3 Marseille, France | Musée Grobet-Labadié | Gaetano Pesce: Cinq techniques pour le verre/expérience au C.I.R.V.A.

1991 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY | Gaetano Pesce. Collaborative Exhibition

1990 São Paolo, Brazil | Museum of Modern Art | The Pluralist Tower

1988/9 New York, NY | Max Protetch Gallery | Gaetano Pesce: Drawings, Models, Prototypes

1988 New York, NY | Steelcase Design Partnership | Modern Times Again

1985 Cambridge, UK | Carpenter Center for Visual Arts of Harvard University | Art- Architetture

1979 New York, NY | Goodwin Gallery, MoMa | Gaetano Pesce: Project for a skyscraper in Manhattan

1975 Paris, France | Musée des art decoratifs | Le future est peut-etre passé

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Milano, Italy | Galleria Nilufar | Salone del Mobile

2011/2 London, UK | Victoria and Albert Museum | Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990

2011 Venezia, Italy | Padiglione Italia | 54 Biennale d'Arte

2011 Moscow, Russia | MOD Design Centre | Maestri 2011 New York, NY | Intalian Cultural Institute | Biennale di Venezia nel Mondo

2009 Rome, Italy | Macro Future | Italian Genius Now — Back to Rome

2008/9 New York, NY | MoMa | Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s

2008 Seoul, Korea; Taipei, Taiwan; New Delhi, India; Tokyo, Japan | Italian Genius Now

2007/8 Paris, France | Galeries Nationales de Grand Palais | Design contre Design - Deux siècles de creations

2007 Philadelphia, PA | The Fabric Workshop and Museum | Simply Red 2007 Hanoi, Vietnam; Singapore | Italian Genius Now

2006 Cologne, Germany | Designer of the Year Exhibition of the “Architektur und Wohnens” 2006 Shanghai, China | Museum of Contemporary Art | Italy Made in Art — Now 2006 Montreal, Canada | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | Il Modo Italiano. Italian Design and Avant-garde in the 20th Century

2005 Milano, Italy | Triennale di Milano | Dressing Ourselves 2005 St. Petersburg, Russia | Bulthaup Center Design Gallery | Italian Design on Tour 2005 Berlin, Germany | Designmai Forum Edison Höfe Decoratives 2005 Shanghai, China; Xing Fu Cun Art Center, Beijing, China | Science and Technology Museum 2005 Houston, TX | Museum of Fine Arts Houston | Recent Sessions in Modern and Contemporary Design 2005 Valencia, Spain } Valencia Museum of Fine Art | H2O

2004 Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA; NeoCon Merchandise Mart, Chicago, USA; Onze Lieve Vrouw van Bijstand, Kortrijk, Belgium; Forment de les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona, Spain | Italian Design on Tour 2004 Memphis, TN | Brooks Museum of Art | US Design — 1975-2000

2002/3 Milano, Italy | Triennale di Milano | Le città invisibili

2003 Montreal, Canada | Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal | Global Village — The 60s 2003 Enschede, Netherlands | Museum voor oude en Moderne Kunst | 100 Years, 100 Chairs 2003 Siena, Italy | Centro d’arte contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papesse | Melting Pop 2003 Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; American Craft Museum, New York, NY | US Design — 1975-2000

2002 Paris, France | Centre Pompidou | Les Portes du Design ou l'aventure de l'objet

2000 New York, NY | MoMa | The changing of the avant-garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection

1999 Milano, Italy | Triennale di Milano | Cento oggetti del design italiano

1997 Paris, France | Centre Georges Pompidou | Architecture et Industrie

1996 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Canada; Cincinnati Art Museum, USA; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Canada; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA | Designed for Delight | Alternative Aspects of 20th Centure Decorative Arts

1995 New York, NY | MoMa | Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design

1990 Tokyo, Japan | Makuhari Messe | Creativitalia

1989 Kyoto, Japan | Omron Memorial Project 1989 New York, NY | Steelcase Design Partnership | Edible Architecture

1988 New York, NY | Steelcase Design Partnership | Modern Times Again

1987 Geneva, Switzerland | Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Rath | Vitra Edition 1987

1985 Montreal, Canada | Centre de design UQUAM | La chaise: un objet de design ou d'architecture?

1979 New York, NY | MoMa | Recent acquisitions: architecture and design

1978 London, UK | Architectural Association, Art Net Gallery | A Project for Tehran

1975 New York, NY | MoMa | Architectural studies and projects

1972 New York, NY | MoMa | Italy: the new domestic landscape

1971 New York, NY | MoMa | Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection

1970 Paris, France | Musée des Arts Decorstifs, Louvre | Nouveaux Espaces

1962 Padua, Italy | Sala della Ragione | Biennale Triventa d’Arte