When I arrived at Gaetano Pesce’s first New York solo exhibition in 25 years, the designer had just stormed out. I was told that a reporter shooting a video had asked the maestro to say his name on camera, and Pesce, feeling he should require no such introduction, ended the interview abruptly.
After making celebrated work for decades, perhaps you earn the right to leave your own opening, and the exhibition of more than 40 objects at Fred Torres Collaborations in Chelsea cherry picks from several periods in Pesce’s prolific career. The show takes its title from L'Abbraccio, a 2009 cabinet in the form of two figures embracing. Like the worst of Pesce’s work, it veers into cutesy eroticism, but other recent objects show him at his best, coaxing a weird sensuality out of cast resin and other industrial materials.
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