For many people, the familiar living space of home and the mundane objects of a tree, a table and a chair seem apt to trigger new thoughts about people and their environment.
The Collectible Design, which connects art and life, not only possesses the function and practicability of design products, but also highlights the aesthetic art. It is setting off a new trend of life style in China. Artists and designers explore the new application of techniques and the new expression of aesthetic spirit on common objects. Art and poetry are integrated into the practice of creation. The design products are not only closely related to daily experience, but also poetically “design” life with an artistic beauty.
As large as a piano, a chair, as small as a lamp, a set of cups, these collections are more like their daily companions. Art has become a tool to enrich life, carrying more thinking and memory. Every object we choose by hand builds our living space and is always in line with everyone’s way of life.
Perhaps by divine providence, the last name of Gaetano Pesce, an Italian architect, designer and artist, means “fish”. Like fish swimming freely in the water, Peche’s path of creation is not a one-way street without detour. He walks between reality and imagination, and keeps an eye on the world around him to avoid repeating himself. And this is his life style throughout his life, but also his unswerving design philosophy.
A more colorful exhibition, Gaetano Pesce: Nobody’s Perfect, opens at Today Art Museum in Beijing in the midst of perfectly colored spring. Nearly 100 pieces of furniture, product design, architectural modeling, resin painting, installation and image reproduction are representative of the field, rich colors, diverse shapes, they not only bring a strong visual impact, but also shock people’s hearts.
Whether it is Up5_6 armchair, which is known as “one of the most important chairs in the 20th century”, or Nobody’s Perfect Chair, which is a combination of poetry and intellectual, these works seem to be able to jump out of the law of time. Despite nearly half a century, they are still vanguard and avant-garde. They are collected by famous museums, art galleries. Even surrealist artist Salvador Dali praised it.
“Indeed, there are many collectors of my work.” “Because each collection has a unique interest, and each piece has a different expression,” Peche tells us breezily. With artistic perspective and delicate emotion, he cleverly integrated his views on the world, society and history. However, in the current era when the boundary between art and design is increasingly blurred, Peche’s “self-free” design attaches great importance to the comfort, functionality and practicality of products. “You never want to design a chair that is not comfortable or practical,” he said.
As the renowned art critic Glenn Adamson observed, “[Pescher's work] is a paradoxical unity of depth and childlike innocence that children, especially children, can understand at a first sight.” The octogenarian creator is still active in his studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, expressing emotions and ideas through his creations to surprise others as well as himself.
Post time: Jan-04-2023