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Upon Pivô’s invitation and in celebration of the institution’s ten-year anniversary, artists Anderson Borba and Erika Verzutti are collaborating to create a series of unprecedented works.
Building upon the encounter facilitated in 2022 between artists Juliana dos Santos and Anderson Borba, this year, Pivô invites artists Anderson Borba and Erika Verzutti to work together.
Borba has previously collaborated with Verzutti in her studio, leading to transformative intellectual and affective exchanges for both. In this project, the artists are invited to produce together for the first time, resulting in a merging of two distinct work processes, now converging into a previously unknown form for both.
Anderson Borba, whose mastery lies in wood sculpture, adeptly manipulates materials such as acrylic paint, plaster, varnish, cardboard, and fabric, giving his creations a rough and cracked corporeal texture, yet visually captivating. Inspired by both official sculptural tradition and popular art, and drawing from the self-taught carvers of Brazil’s interior, Borba evokes an anthropomorphic abstraction that challenges traditional perceptions of sculpture.
On the other hand, Erika Verzutti is an artist who blurs the lines between painting and sculpture, creating a vivid synthesis of these mediums. Using diverse materials like papier-mâché, bronze, plaster, concrete, acrylic paint, oil, and wax, Verzutti brings to life forms derived from eggs, animals, fruits, and vegetables, as well as an intricate process of manual molding.
Her sculptures frequently display surfaces marked by roughness, scratches, and incisions, carrying a personal narrative that oscillates between the tangibility of recognizable forms and the invocation of abstractions. Verzutti’s practice reimagines modernist sculpture and vernacular construction, interweaving material properties with symbolic meaning and challenging temporality through a tactile language that incorporates disparate elements without establishing hierarchies.
The collaboration process between the artists not only challenges their individual practices but also enriches their exploration of form and symbolism. Mutual respect and a joint pursuit of new artistic horizons are captured in a documentary where the artists share their reflections and interactions, directed by Pedro Marques and Fernanda Brenner, artistic director of Pivô.
The artworks and documentary will be presented in the exhibition space on the ground floor of Pivô, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the intersection of these two artists’ visual poetry. By facilitating this creative collaboration between two distinct individuals, Pivô once again demonstrates its commitment to artistic exchange. The jointly produced works will be sold, and the proceeds will support the institution’s program, which has enabled artistic projects and residencies for ten years in the central region of São Paulo.
Anderson Borba’s sculptures employ industrial-grade wood, cardboard, textiles as well as vintage lifestyle and fashion magazines. These materials form his starting point. The artist carves, burns, paints over, presses and manipulates these elements in a process-guided construction, resulting in rugged bodily forms, cracked but seductive. Influenced as much by
the historical canon of sculptures as by the self-taught carvers of inner Brazil, Anderson Borba operates in a complex arrangement between concept and experience, dislocating and unraveling the physical body to the point of anthropomorphic abstraction.
Among his recent solo exhibitions are I’ve seen one of these, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brasil (2022); The End
Begins at the Leaf — Anderson Borba & Antonio Tarsis, BeAdvisors Art, Londres, UK (2021); Anderson Borba & Alex Canonico, Kupfer Gallery, Londres, UK (2021) and Ride the Worm, Set Gallery, Londres, UK (2018). He has also taken part
in the group shows Comporta 2023, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel + kurimanzutto, Comporta, Portugal; Para-raios para energias confusas, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brasil; Eccentric spaces, The Artist Room, London, UK; I Could Eat You, Clearing + Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel + Madragoa, Casa de Cultura da Comporta, Comporta, Portugal (2022); and Tragédia!, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brasil (2022).
Upon Pivô’s invitation and in celebration of the institution’s ten-year anniversary, artists Anderson Borba and Erika Verzutti are collaborating to create a series of unprecedented works.
Building upon the encounter facilitated in 2022 between artists Juliana dos Santos and Anderson Borba, this year, Pivô invites artists Anderson Borba and Erika Verzutti to work together. Borba has previously collaborated with Verzutti in her studio, leading to transformative intellectual and affective exchanges for both. In this project, the artists are invited to produce together for the first time, resulting in a merging of two distinct work processes, now converging into a previously unknown form for both.
Anderson Borba, whose mastery lies in wood sculpture, adeptly manipulates materials such as acrylic paint, plaster, varnish, cardboard, and fabric, giving his creations a rough and cracked corporeal texture, yet visually captivating. Inspired by both official sculptural tradition and popular art, and drawing from the self-taught carvers of Brazil’s interior, Borba evokes an anthropomorphic abstraction that challenges traditional perceptions of sculpture.
On the other hand, Erika Verzutti is an artist who blurs the lines between painting and sculpture, creating a vivid synthesis of these mediums. Using diverse materials like papier-mâché, bronze, plaster, concrete, acrylic paint, oil, and wax, Verzutti brings to life forms derived from eggs, animals, fruits, and vegetables, as well as an intricate process of manual molding.
Her sculptures frequently display surfaces marked by roughness, scratches, and incisions, carrying a personal narrative that oscillates between the tangibility of recognizable forms and the invocation of abstractions. Verzutti’s practice reimagines modernist sculpture and vernacular construction, interweaving material properties with symbolic meaning and challenging temporality through a tactile language that incorporates disparate elements without establishing hierarchies.
The collaboration process between the artists not only challenges their individual practices but also enriches their exploration of form and symbolism. Mutual respect and a joint pursuit of new artistic horizons are captured in a documentary where the artists share their reflections and interactions, directed by Pedro Marques and Fernanda Brenner, artistic director of Pivô.
The artworks and documentary will be presented in the exhibition space on the ground floor of Pivô, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the intersection of these two artists’ visual poetry. By facilitating this creative collaboration between two distinct individuals, Pivô once again demonstrates its commitment to artistic exchange. The jointly produced works will be sold, and the proceeds will support the institution’s program, which has enabled artistic projects and residencies for ten years in the central region of São Paulo.
Anderson Borba + Erika Verzutti
Curated by Fernanda Brenner
Opening
Saturday | September 2nd, 2023
From 1PM to 7PM