Erika Verzutti
in ‘Actual Fractals, Act I’, Sculpture Milwaukee
30 June 2023 – 1 October 2024
Erika Verzutti, Venus Yogini, 2019. Courtesy: Sculpture Milwaukee © Erika Verzutti
Erika Verzutti is featured in the group show ‘Actual Fractals, Act I’ at Sculpture Milwaukee alongside fellow distinguished artists Katy Cowan, Lars Fisk, Pao Houa Her, Nicole Miller, Mary Miss and Isamu Noguchi.
In Verzutti’s ‘Venus Yogini’ (2019), the artist references the upside down profile of the earliest known sculpture, ‘Venus of Willendorf’, a figurine created roughly 30,000 years ago representing fertility. By manipulating the scale of known fruits and organic forms, Verzutti evokes the enormity of the ecological destruction taking place in Brazil in the wake of increasing global need for natural resources.