Mr Gaetano Pesce was born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Venice. He has lived in Padova, Venice, London, Helsinki, Paris and New York. Mr Pesce was a guest lecturer and professor at many prestigious institutions in America and abroad, including the Cooper Union in New York.

His multidisciplinary work, that encompasses art and performance art, has been the subject of numerous publications and exhibitions and is currently displayed in the permanent collections of museums in France, Finland, Italy, Portugal, England and the United States! In 1996, he was honored with both a comprehensive career retrospective at the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris and the publication of the Catalogue Gaetano Pesce: Le temps des questions. In 1993, Gaetano Pesce received the influential Chrysler Award for Innovation and Design.
Pesce’s project in architecture has a lot to do with modernism and can best be described in his own words: Rather than a style, modernism is a method for interpreting the present and anticipating the future, a method which preserves and celebrates individuality.

What best describes Pesce’s work in fact is extraordinary complexity of the “diversified series”, the double functionality of objects and architecture, the creative use of colors, the political specificity of his projects, the theory and practice of the “poorly made” concept, the provocation, use of synthetic materials, the theory of “femininity” in architectural projects and, lastly, the culture of objects.