Reloading Gurus: Erika Verzutti and Fernanda Brenner in Conversation
Fernanda Brenner, Mousse
February 2018
Erika Verzutti is above all a studio artist. Her work is informed by a meticulous handling of materials and visual references from myriad sources. From the history of art to pop culture, nature, and cosmology, there is no hierarchy, and logic and intuition are never opposed. While finishing the works for her upcoming exhibition, Ex-Gurus at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, the Brazilian artist spoke with Fernanda Brenner, a curator and the artistic director of Pivô, about ideas and themes that inform the inventory of forms she has been developing, collecting, and reconfiguring for the past fifteen years. […]