ALESSANDRO PESSOLI – CAROUSEL
2021-05-03These are imaginary portraits of male and female figures. The classic pose of the figures is contaminated by Disney characters and illustrations from William Blake’s Divina Commedia, a reshuffling of iconographies and symbologies. Flowers, apples, birds, skulls, swords, snakes, wings, and talons are some of the elements that accompany and characterize the figures.
The title, Carousel, recalls the continuous rotating, going up and down, a play, an entertainment, it represents a way to outline the human condition through symbolic figures and scenes from Western art history such as Adam and Eve, The Expulsion from Paradise, the isolation, the temptation, the fall, and the rebirth.
Opposite – Jung William Blake, 2021
Exhibition runs through to May 15th, 2021
Anton Kern Gallery
16 East 55th Street
10022
New York
