Gaetano Pesce "UP7 (II Piede)" Chair

Item Details

Gaetano Pesce (Italy; born 1939)
UP7 (II Piede), 1969
Polyurethane foam chair

A foot shaped chair titled UP7 (II Piede) by Gaetano Pesce, dated 1969. Featured is a black polyurethane foam chair with mottled texture structured in the form of a large-scale lifelike right foot.

Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939, Gaetano Pesce studied architecture at the University of Venice and was a part of Gruppo N, which was an artist collective modeled after the Bauhaus. Besides teaching for 28 years, Pesce has been working toward breaking the boundaries between art, design and industry. His work is now featured in over 30 permanent museum collections including the MoMa of New York and San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Vitra Museum in Germany. To this day Pesce exhibits his art in galleries throughout the world.

Provenance
Property from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, sold to benefit the Art Acquisition Fund.

Condition

- minor surface wear; some cracking to ankle area and top of foot; minor losses of foam to tops of toes.

Dimensions

Item #

18IND030-018