“B. Wurtz: Kitchen Trees”

Known for creating whimsical, spindly assemblages that draw upon the legacies of Marcel Duchamp and Alexander Calder, B. Wurtz ventures into public art for the first time in his 50-year career with this installation of five outdoor sculptures at City Hall Park. Often made out of bits and pieces of wire, fabric wood, buttons and other sorts of detritus, his work frequently assumes plantlike forms, and here, it literally grows to the size of trees: Cobbled out of kitchen utensils, and hung with plastic fruits and vegetables, the pieces rise from 15 to 18 feet in height and span 10 to 12 feet in diameter.