Terms and conditions of use
Prototype no. 000-F for Moloch, floor lamp
(1971-1972) {designed and manufactured}
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Marjorie Josephs-Wilks Bequest, 2025
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
Gaetano Pesce was celebrated for his provocative furniture and industrial design of the postwar period. During the 1960s he rose to prominence as a leading figure within the Italian Radical Design movement, whose followers rejected the functionalism, mass-production and consumerism that characterised mainstream design. In his giant version of an ordinary desk light, Pesce employs an icon of early twentieth-century industrial design, distorting its scale and thus commenting on the commercialisation and consumerism of the design industry. Pesce was a radical – he believed in a higher ideal for design and his Moloch floor lamp was a provocation.
Artwork Details
Marjorie Josephs-Wilks Bequest, 2025