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Architonic ID: 20731531
SKU: 342
Year of Launch: 2023
Concept
The scent of the sea and the coming and going of waves on the shore are represented by Gaetano Pesce in the Risacca screen. A true work of art, crafted and decorated by hand in nine numbered exemplars, Risacca portrays the vibrant colours of the sea and, thanks to research and development by Cassina, recreates its enveloping sound, delivering a totally immersive experience, as the artist imagined it: “The piece begins to express itself, beyond the visual, also through another sense: hearing. Thus, the functionality completes itself for greater expression”. Risacca is a window from which to expand one’s horizons during everyday moments. Made up of three individual panels in polyurethane resin, the screen is created by hand through a series of intricate processes that make each detail unique. In a celebration of Cassina’s productive excellence, the transparent resin is first poured into a wooden mould and, once solidified, decorated by hand with various pigmented resins, as if it were the canvas of a painting. With a decorative technique similar to oil painting, the various layers of colour are applied, first with a brush and then with a spatula, while the resin thickens, transforming from liquid to a viscous state, a particularly complex transition that must take place quickly, in less than ten minutes. During this extremely textural process, each gesture by the artist is impressed in the resin and the various layers overlap, lending a three-dimensional quality that creates the ripples on the sea. The triptych of panels reproduces the sound of the waves through a Bluetooth speaker located in one of the six burnished brass bases. The correspondence between the vivid colours and the moving sound of the sea makes it possible to lose oneself in the imaginary world of Pesce.
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Gaetano Pesce
Italy
During his career, that spans four decades with commissions in architecture, urban planning, interior, exhibition and industrial design, Gaetano Pesce, the architect and designer, has conceived public and private projects in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In all his work, he expresses his guiding principle: that modernism is less a style than a method for interpreting the present and hinting at the future in which individuality is preserved and celebrated. Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939, Pesce studied Architecture at the University of Venice between 1958 to 1963 and was a participant in Gruppo N, an early collective concerned with programmed art patterned after the Bauhaus. He taught architecture at the Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg, France, for 28 years, at the Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, at the Domus Academy in Milan, at the Polytechinc of Hong Kong, at the Architectural School of Sao Paulo and at the Cooper Union in New York City, where he has made his home since 1980, after living in Venice, London, Helsinki and Paris. Pesce’s work is featured in over 30 permanent collections of the most important museums in the world, such as MoMa of New York and San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Vitra Museum in Germany, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Pompidou Center and Musee des Arts Décoratifs of Louvre in Paris; he exhibits art in galleries world wide. His award winning designs include the prestigious Chrysler Award for Innovation and Design in 1993, the Architektur and Wohnen Designer of the Year in 2006 and the Lawrence J. Israel Prize from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2009. Pesce experience has been global, his innovations consistently groundbreaking. Boundaries between art, design and industry are irrelevant to him, as art is most certainly not something created and put on a pedestal: art is a product, it is our creative response to the needs of the time we live in.