Luiz Zerbini (São Paulo SP 1959)
Mulmedia artist.
At four years old, Luiz Pierre Zerbini begins to take painting classes with Van Acker (1931 - 2000). Later he studies photography with Carlos Moreira (1937) and Aquarela with Dudi Maia Rosa (1946). Between 1978 and 1980, he attended the Fine Arts course at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), in São Paulo. At the beginning of the 1980s, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, started working as a set designer for the theater group Asdrúbal, he brought the trombone and performed in Rio's bars in partnership with the actress Regina Casé (1954). He has his first solo exhibition in 1982, at Casa do Brasil, in Madrid, Spain. It occupies part of the National Salon of Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro and receives a special reference from the jury, in 1985. Participates in the 19th International Biennial of São Paulo, in 1987. paintings, but later works with sculpture, video, drawing and photography. In 1995, he received the Grand Prix of Critics in the Visual Arts category of the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA). That same year, he created, in partnership with the artist Barrão (1959), the video and film editor Sérgio Mekler (1963) and the music producer Chico Neves the group Chelpa Ferro (Arcaica Expression that Means Money), which works with sculpture, technological installations and music electronics.
Critical Comment
In the 1980s, Luiz Zerbini produces figurative canvases in which he presents scenes of surrealist inspiration, as tragedy is an accumulation of misunderstandings, 1987. Artist often uses photography in collages, designed as studies for large canvas. He also uses the photographic framework in works such as Zoo, 1985, in which he also maintains a dialogue with pop art. In the children's pool, from the same date, the dreamlike aspect and the extremely vibrant and luminous colors stand out. Subsequently, he performs self-portraits in which he presents himself wrapped in a profusion of colors and images.
In 1995, Zerbini meets the artist Barrão (1959), the image editor Sergio Mekler (1963) and the Music producer Chico Neves and creates the group Chelpa Ferro, which associates image and sound, performing performances and installations. The group explores electronic and industrial sounds, creates new uses and meanings for old electronic equipment and also uses noises resulting from everyday objects, such as those of printers, cash registers, ping-pong balls or the steps of the exhibition visitors. In an installation presented by the group at the 26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, in 2004, a set of branches and dry tree trunks is moved by means of electric pedals, driven by the public, and produces a light sound, similar to the sound of the wind traveling through the interior. of the building.
In works exhibited in 1999, such as the Paintings in the Water series, Luiz Zerbini uses a Chinese technique in which the paper is dyed underwater, with a solution of paint and algae. With this procedure, the artist produces abstract paintings of luminous colors that reflect the fluidity of the aqueous medium. As the artist Sérgio Romagnolo (1957) notes, at first glance, these paintings appear to be easy and seductive, but they bring with them issues related to popular and conceptual art.
Criticism
"The trapezoid It rips the air to the sound of a blind violin. It's a goal. The line explodes on the screen, a crash on the ground. It's a circus. The ball crosses the area, the ace kills in the chest and kicks. It's art. It subverts any position of meaning. Only sensations populate the head of this eleven. Cultural workers. No excessive feeling but the color and vigor of the ink. Nice, very crazy. Our team takes off towards Mexico. On the treadmill, the panic panel of the saturated megalopolises. By the way, a goal from this team values any pinacoteca".
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Paintings: Volante craft. São Paulo: Commercial Art Sub-district, 1986.
Individual exhibitions
1982 - Madrid (Spain) - Individual, at Casa do Brasil
1985 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Subdistrict Gallery
1988 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Subdistrict Gallery
1988 - Rio de Janeiro - Individual, at the EAV/Parque Lage
1991 - São Paulo SP - Individual, in the subdistrict gallery
1991 - Recife PE - Individual, in Pasárgagada Contemporânea
1991 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Itaugaleria
1991 - São Paulo SP - Individual, in the subdistrict gallery
1993 - São Paulo SP - Individual at the Camargo Vilaça Gallery
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at MAM/RJ
1995 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Camargo Gallery Vilaça
1997 - La Paz (Bolivia) - Individual, at the Museo Tambo Quirchincho
2002 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Galeria Fortes Vilaça
2006 - São Paulo SP - from the body to the landscape, in the Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Collective exhibitions
1980 - São Paulo SP - Leonilson and Luiz Zerbini, at Teatro Lira Paulistana
1981 - Madrid (Spain) - Leonilson and Luiz Zerbini, at the Casa do Brasil Art Gallery
1984 - Fortaleza CE - 7th National Salon of Plastic Arts - Special Reference for the Jury
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 7th National Arts Hall Plasticas, at MAM/RJ
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Art at Rua 2
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Como Vai Você, Geração 80?, at EAV/Parque Lage
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 8th National Salon of Plastic Arts, at MAM/RJ
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Novos Cariocas, at the Casa da Cultura
1985 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Velha Mania: Brazilian design, EAV/Parque Lage
1986 - Guadalajara (Mexico) - Paintings: Escrete Volador (1986: Guadalajara, Mexico)
1986 - São Paulo SP - A Nova Object dimension, at MAC/USP
1987 - São Paulo SP - 19th São Paulo International Biennial, at the Bienal Foundation
1988 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 88 x 68: years
1988 - São Paulo SP - Private collection by Eduardo Brandão, at the Casa Triângulo gallery
1989 - Curitiba PR - Canale, Fonseca, Milhazes, Pizarro, Zerbini, at the Municipal Museum of Art of Curitiba
1989 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Canale, Fonseca, Milhazes, Pizarro, Zerbini, at Funarte/RJ
1989 - São Paulo SP - Canale, Fonseca, Milhazes, Pizarro, Zerbini, at MAC/USP
1989 - São Paulo SP - Collective, at MASP
1989 - São Paulo SP - Fábio Cardoso, Leonilson, Daniel Senise and Luiz Zerbini, MASP
1990 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Projects Arqueos, at Fundição Progresso
1991 - Mexico - Myth and Magic en Los Otchenta, at the Museum of Contemporary Art
1991 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - br/80: Pintura Brasil Decade 80s, at Fundação Casa França-Brasil
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Arts of Power, at Paço Imperial
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian Contemporary Art, at EAV/Parque Lage
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Eco Art, at MAM/RJ
1992 - São Paulo SP - João Satamini/Subdistrict, at Casa das Rosas
1992 - São Paulo SP - Annual Program for Visual Arts Exhibitions, at CCSP
1993 - Niterói RJ - 2nd On the way to Niterói: João Sattamini Collection, in the MAC/Niterói
1993 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Role of Rio, in the Imperial Palace
1993 - Washington D. C. (United States) - Brazil: images from the 80s and 90s, at the Art Museum of the Americas
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 2nd Visual Arts Exhibition: Space, at the Espaço Cultural dos Correios
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazil: images from the 80s and 90s, at MAM/RJ
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Space in the vision of: Araken, Barrão, Cláudio Tozzi, Ivald Granato, João Magalhães, Luiz Zerbini and Rubens Gerchman, at the Espaço Cultural dos Correios
1994 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The Exchange Show: twelve painters from San Francisco and Rio de Janeiro, at MAM/RJ
1994 - San Francisco (United States) - The Exchange Show: Twelve Painters from San Francisco and Rio de Janeiro, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
1994 - São Paulo SP - Bienal Brasil Século 20th, at the Bienal Foundation
1994 - São Paulo SP - Brazil: images from the 80s and 90s, at Casa das Rosas
1994 - São Paulo SP - Marinhas, at the Nara Roesler Gallery
1995 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Perverse childhood: fables on memory and time, at MAM/RJ
1995 - Salvador BA - A childhood Perverse: Fables on Memory and Time, at MAM/BA
1995 - São Paulo SP - 80s: The Diversity Stage, at the SESI Art Gallery
1996 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Guignard: The Choice of the Artist, at Paço Imperial
1998 - Goiânia GO - The 80s, at the Art Gallery Marina Potrich
1998 - Niterói RJ - Mirror of the Bienal, at MAC/Niterói
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The image of the sound of Caetano Veloso, at Paço Imperial
1998 - São Paulo SP - The modern and the contemporary in Brazilian art: Gilberto Chateaubriand collection - MAM/RJ, at MASP
1998 - São Paulo SP - Futebol Arte, at the arts company
1999 - Porto Alegre RS - 2nd Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial
1999 - Porto Alegre RS - Ciberarte: Interaction Zones, at Usina do Gasómetro
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The image of the sound of Chico Buarque, at Paço Imperial
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Exhibition Rio engraving. Contemporary Prints, at the Paço Imperial
2000 - Havana (Cuba) - 7th Bienal de Havana, at the Contemporáneo Art Center Wifredo Lam
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The image of the sound by Gilberto Gil, at the Paço Imperial
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition. Letter from Pero Vaz de Caminha, at the National Historical Museum
2000 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Expanded Territory, at SESC Pompéia
2000 - São Paulo SP - The human figure in the Itaú collection, in Itaú Cultural
2000 - São Paulo SP - Brazil + 500 Rediscovery Exhibition. Letter from Pero Vaz de Caminha, at the Bienal Foundation
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The image of the sound of Antônio Carlos Jobim, at the Paço Imperial
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian watercolor, at the Cultural Center Light
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Blind Mirror: Selections of a Contemporary Collection, at Paço Imperial
2001 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The spirit of our time, at MAM/RJ
2001 - São Paulo SP - 27th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
2001 - São Paulo SP - Arco das Rosas: Marchand as curator, at Casa das Rosas
2001 - São Paulo SP - Blind Mirror: Selections from a contemporary collection, at MAM/SP
2001 - São Paulo SP - The spirit of our time, at MAM/SP
2002 - Barra Mansa RJ - Sidaids, at the Sesc Barra Mansa Art Gallery
2002 - Liverpool (England) - Pot
2002 - Niterói RJ - The recent MAC collection at MAC/Niterói
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 27th Brazilian Art Panorama, MAM/RJ
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Culture in times of AIDS, at MNBA
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Artefoto, at CCBB
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Paths of the Contemporary 1952-2002, at Paço Imperial
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Identities: The Brazilian portrait in the Gilberto Chateaubriand collection, at MAM/RJ
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Sidaids, at the Sesc Barra Mansa Art Gallery
2002 - Salvador BA - 27th Panorama of Brazilian Art, at MAM/BA
2002 - São Gonçalo RJ - Sidaids, at SESC São Gonçalo
2002 - São Paulo SP - Paralela, in a shed located at Avenida Matarazzo, 530, São Paulo. Exhibition idealized and organized together by the Galerias Fortes Vilaça, Luisa Strina, Casa Triângulo and Brito Cimino
2002 - São Paulo SP - Pot, at Galeria Fortes Vilaça
2002 - São Paulo SP - Rotating Phase 2, at Galeria Fortes Vilaça
2003 - Brasília DF - ARTEFOTO, at CCBB
2003 - Niterói RJ - Sidaids, at the Art Gallery SESC
2003 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Chelpa Ferro, at MAM/RJ
2003 - São Paulo SP - 2080, at MAM/SP
2003 - São Paulo SP - A Nova Geometry, at Galeria Fortes Vilaça
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazilian contemporary art Rio Collections, at MAM/RJ
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Where Are You, Generation 80?, at CCBB
2004 - São Paulo SP - Still Life / Still Life, at the SESI Art Gallery
2004 - São Paulo SP - Vol., at Galeria Vermelho
2004 - São Paulo SP - Summer Bazaar, at Galeria Fortes Vilaça
2004 - São Paulo SP - Summer Bazaar, at Galeria Fortes Vilaça
2004 - São Paulo SP - Still Life / Still Life, at the SESI Art Gallery
2004 - São Paulo SP - Vol., at Galeria Vermelho
2005 - São Paulo SP - Erotica: the senses in art, in the ccbb
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Erotica: the senses in art, at CCBB
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Só Painting, at Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporary
2006 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at MAM/RJ
2006 - São Paulo SP - Fortes Vilaça at Choque Cultural, at Galeria Choque Cultural
2006 - São Paulo SP - Paralela 2006, at the Pavilion of the States
2006 - São Paulo SP - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
2007 - Curitiba PR - A Century of Brazilian Art - Collection Gilberto Chateaubriand, at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum
2007 - Salvador BA - A Century of Brazilian Art - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, at MAM/BA
2007 - São Paulo SP - Itaú Contemporary: Art in Brazil 1981-2006, at Itaú Cultural
2008 - Madrid (Spain) - 27th Arch, at the Instituto Feria de Madrid
Source: Itaú Cultural
