Alessandro Pessoli at Anton Kern Gallery

Alessandro Pessoli, Sancho Panza & Don Chiscotte, maiolica ceramics, wire & steel base, 2012.
Alessandro Pessoli, Sancho Panza & Don Chiscotte, maiolica ceramics, wire & steel base, 2012.

Alessandro Pessoli’s painted figures usually look like they’ve emerged from a dream or hallucination; these absurdly phallic Maiolica ceramic sculptures, fittingly titled Sancho Panza & Don Chiscotte, lack the typical atmospheric surroundings of Pessoli’s paintings, but their lighthearted vibrant colors and mobile-like hanging lend them an amusing whimsy. (At Chelsea’s Anton Kern Gallery through Oct 20th.)