Digesting the Canon: Erika Verzutti at Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Erika Verzutti’s first museum presentation in her native Brazil is a feast for the eyes: many of the seventy-nine sculptures on view, made between 2003 and 2020, comprise bronze or concrete casts of fruits and vegetables that have been cut, stacked, and painted. The show opens with Porn Star (2016), for which c were cast in bronze, splattered with pink and white acrylic, and stacked on end to resemble Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column (1938). The work is emblematic of Verzutt