Erika Verzutti: ‘It was a revelation — I was going to become a fruit sculptor!’
Oliver Basciano, Financial Times
October 2025
Oversized fruits can be found everywhere in Erika Verzutti’s downtown São Paulo studio. Rendered in clay, bronze, concrete and papier-mâché, the sculptures — finished and work-in-progress — sit on the workbench and floor.
For two decades the Brazilian artist has made works that are globular, totemic and delight in quoting art history. These sculptures, often casts of bananas, gourds and melons, are also suggestively anthropomorphic. […]