GAETANO PESCE (ITALIAN 1939-2024) §
'O SOLE MIO', 1972/1991
£8,190
Auction: MODERN MADE Part II | 01 November 2024 | Lots 80 to 444
Description
aluminium hoop with steel fixings, resin 'sun' fitted to aluminium transport housing electronic and lighting, purported to be one of three prototypes
Dimensions
180cm diameter (70 ¾in diameter)
Provenance
Urban Architecture, New York, from whom acquired by Steve Allison, March 2004.
The Steve Allison collection.
Footnote
On O Sole Mio Pesce wrote 'I made the model only, because the technology of that time was not able to develop such a complex project. It is a round rail with the sun moving - a superb piece because this is a lamp that works like the sun. The idea is that [with] a sensor switch on the light, the sun appears during the actual night, and when the day starts, the sun of the lamp disappears - it turns off…we did finally work with Meritalia to realize the round one, but they were not able to do it…
But it is a fantastic object. I want to repeat that. The sun is something so powerful - it is always moving…and the lamp does the same thing. And it's a figurative object. This is also very very powerful.' (Quoted in Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence)
Literature:
Adamson, Glenn, Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence, The Monacelli Press, 2003, pp.144-5, an example illustrated.