Gaetano Pesce remembers Germano Celant in an exhibition in Genoa
Genoa hosts the great exhibition dedicated to the artist, architect, designer and sculptor Gaetano Pesce, the first that sees him as a protagonist after the closure of the pandemic. The exhibition is also an opportunity for Pesce to remember a friend and another great figure from the world of contemporary culture who recently passed away, Germano Celant, a fundamental figure in the history of art.
THE WORKS OF GAETANO PESCE ON EXHIBITION AT VILLA CROCE
By title “Gaetano Pesce. In memory of a friend “, the exhibition is hosted until January 9, 2022 at the spaces of the Villa Croce Museum in Genoa, where cult works by Pesce and their reinterpretations are visible. To host visitors on the ground floor there is the iconic armchair Su5 & 6, with its anthropomorphic forms magnified by the goddess of fertility, or Moloch from 1972, a macro version of the famous L1 table lamp, born in 1937 thanks to the designer Jacob Jacobsen, with the most recent works such as the Skins (Industrial Skin), in thin resin, which descend from the ceiling of the large room on the first floor. And then the vases, the tables, the chairs and the lamps, the Pulcinella and the Donna applique.
MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE IN THE SQUARES OF GENOA
The exhibition does not end with the six sales of the Villa Croce Museum, but involves the entire city: four enormous sculptures by Gaetano Pesce have also been installed in the main squares of the Ligurian capital. In piazza Fontane Marose there is the Majesty tradition, in Piazza De Ferrari you can see the On of giant rags, while the Picture Frame Chair it was instead placed in Piazza Matteotti. The last great work stands out in the museum park, facing the sea: it isThe Crucifixion of manual skills, created by Pesce in 2020, during the lockdown period and shown for the first time at the Genoa exhibition.