This installation will be in place from May 27th - October 9th
In Spring 2022, the Aspen Art Museum will present a new large-scale project by Gaetano Pesce (b. Italy, 1939. Lives and works in New York City), one of the world’s most influential living multidisciplinary artists and creative minds, celebrated worldwide for his provocative and experimental pursuit of material, technological as well as social innovation. Driven by risk-taking curiosity and radical thinking, Pesce’s work is renowned for blurring boundaries between art, design, and architecture.
Conceived especially for the Aspen Art Museum with the title My Dear Mountains, and supported by the Italian Council (9th Edition, 2020), a program of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture to promote Italian contemporary art in the world, Gaetano Pesce’s new project features a monumental site-specific installation covering the whole façade of the museum with an iconic figurative image of the sun setting over a mountain landscape. This ambitious outdoor intervention on the building—the artist’s first-ever project for a façade—will be accompanied by a display of his furniture and sculptures within the museum’s ground-floor gallery.
Gaetano Pesce’s career spans over fifty years and nearly every medium, moving fluidly and playfully across categorical definitions of objecthood. Making a virtue of incoherence, over the years Pesce has remained independent from the sectors of mass-industrial production and commercial distribution, prioritizing his stance as an artist and intellectual. He is interested in introducing cultural values that foster diversity and plurality rather than pleasing market trends and demands. His designs stand out for their figurative and often organic qualities, which disrupt and challenge the uniform neutral aesthetic seen in many contemporary buildings and products across the globe.
