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INSPIRED BY GAETANO PESCE

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INSPIRED BY GAETANO PESCE

Walker, Design by Ruth Mateus-Berr & Pia Scharler

Steel, Polyurethane

70.00x260.00x70.00

2024

INSPIRED BY GAETANO PESCE is a rollator inspired by the famous Gaetano Pesce chair: Mid-century UP 2000. Methodologically, it deals with vacuum packaging and the then new material polyurethane. In terms of content, it is dedicated to women's freedom "Women suffer because of the prejudice of men. The chair was supposed to talk about this problem" (Martin 2017)

and here the rollator is dedicated to the freedom for self-determination of people with dementia and is also intended to encourage people to talk about it.


*Martin, Hannah (2017). The Story Behind Gaetano Pesce's Iconic Armchair. Nearly 50 years after its creation, Gaetano Pesce’s revolutionary feminist seat is more relevant than ever In: Architectural Digest. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-story-behind-gaetano-pesces-iconic-armchair



DEMEDARTS is an artistic research project of the Center for Didactics for Art and Interdisciplinary Education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), within the PEEK-program (Programm zur Erweiterung und Erschließung der Künste): A-609 ; Project DOI: 10.55776/AR609

The project runs from: February 2020 – January 2023

 

2024 Arte Laguna Prize for Art & Design. International Prize for Contemporary Art.

AWARD FUNDER: Italian Cultural association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art)

Ruth Mateus-Berr and Pia Scharler

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