Ken Johnson
Maurizio Pellegrin at Esso Gallery
 
in “The New York Times"
New York, February 6th and 13th, 2004
 

An Italian sculptor who lives in Venice and New York, Mr. Pellegrin combines found objects, old photographs, fabric, paper and other materials into orderly, symbolically portentous, but enigmatic arrangements.
In six works from the last decades, decorative elegance, the allure of antiques and poetic solemnity prevail, but there are also enlivening moments of idiosyncratic whimsy.