ASPEN, CO.- The Aspen Art Museum announced its presentation of Erika Verzutti’s Venus Yogini, a new large-scale, bronze sculptural work that represents an extension of the Brazilian-born artist’s recent production of smaller sculptures that incorporate organic shapes to depict the ancient goddess of fertility. The newly commissioned work is being featured on the AAM’s exterior Crown Commons through Sunday, October 6, 2019.

Grounded in the everyday and deriving source material from ordinary objects, contemporary artist Erika Verzutti creates unique hybrid objects that take on anthropomorphic qualities and playfully fuse elements of the real and the fantastical. Dedicated to an artistic process that embraces chance and invites tactility through a canny use of materials, Verzutti’s works invoke the contemporary and echo the archaeological, while blurring the distinction between the representational and the abstract.

Erika Verzutti’s Venus Yogini will remain on view throughout a summer that also includes AAM’s observation of its fortieth anniversary year as an institution, its fifth year in a new Shigeru Ban-designed building, and the museum’s fifteenth year celebration of its annual ArtCrush fundraising gala.

Erika Verzutti (b. 1971, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo. She studied at Goldsmiths College, London. Recent exhibitions have taken place at: Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 57th Venice Biennale, Italy, CAC–Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (all 2017); Pivô, São Paulo (2016); SculptureCenter, New York, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (both 2015); Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, and Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland (both 2014). ----