ERIKA VERZUTTI
Fondazione ICA Milano presents, from Wednesday 10th April to Friday 19th July 2024, the exhibition Notizia, first solo show in Milan by Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti (São Paulo, 1971). The exhibition is curated by Chiara Nuzzi and Alberto Salvadori and is conceived for the ground floor of Fondazione ICA Milano. The project offers a selection of several sculptural works that Verzutti created almost entirely in Milan between 2023 and 2024, building an insight into the artist's long practice.
The exhibition’s title Notizia, refers to the strong impact that the constant circulation of information has on the artist and her creative process. Starting from the sense of anxiety that Erika Verzutti finds in being exposed to a continuous flow of data, in the spaces of Fondazione ICA Milano sculptures in bronze, ceramic, paper and resin unfold, evoking totemic figures inspired to elements which recall the natural and the artificial world such as tropical fruits, eggs and newspaper sheets. The landscape designed by the artist's works is marked by the unprecedented presentation of her most iconic works, many of which are intentionally displayed horizontally.
As Chiara Nuzzi and Alberto Salvadori explain in the introductory text to the exhibition: "Verzutti's sculpture is not new to concepts of disobedience and irreverence, the founding elements of a practice centered on the experimental and speculative study of the survival of images. It is precisely from this challenge that the artist asks how it is possible to produce works of art in a present characterised by increasing inequality and instability such as the one in which we live".