Alessandro Pessoli in ‘Lilliput’ on The High Line

Alessandro Pessoli, Old Singer with Blossoms, bronze, steel, wool, 2012.
Alessandro Pessoli, Old Singer with Blossoms, bronze, steel, wool, 2012.

Alessandro Pessoli’s ‘Old Singer with Blossoms’ on the High Line is half hidden amongst short trees and lush plantings, making this odd character all the more strange once you become aware of his presence.  A balaclava in pretty, rainbow colors gives him a childlike or hippy appearance completely at odds with his cold steel body and bronze head.  As a mechanical creature subject to ridicule (for that silly hat), he could be one of Marcel Duchamp’s bachelors grown old.  (On the High Line as part of the group show ‘Lilliput’ through April 2013.)