Pat Ferrero in Person

Achilles G. Rizzoli was your classic closet artist-a mild-mannered draftsman by day, by night a master of ecstatic architectural speculation. Reclusive San Franciscan Rizzoli lived out his days in relative obscurity, his fearsome imagination a recompense for solitude. The visionary architecture he rendered consisted of richly nuanced, Beaux Arts - inflected monuments, often capturing in anthropomorphic fashion people he admired. Large-scale fleshy structures, sexualized and exalted, these were monuments never to be built, but only savored for their poignant and glorious detail. Pat Ferrero's "docu-revelato" is in itself a quirky hybrid, conjoining excerpts from Rizzoli's journals operatically sung by John Duykers with a bounty of the artist's drawings and photographs. As Rizzoli's solitude solidified, his vision grew in scale and ambition, culminating in the epic city YTTE (Yield to Total Elation), a pleasuredome of unbuilt redemption.