“Color”

Luiz Zerbini began his artistic career in the late 1970s. His work ranges from painting, sculpture, installation, photography, text production and video. With a rich and luminous palette, Luiz Zerbini produces images ranging from domestic scenes, natural and urban landscapes to abstract images. The artist juxtaposes styles and techniques, organic and geometric patterns, and fields of light and shadow, producing optical effects that invite contemplation.

He held his first solo exhibition in 1982, at the Casa do Brasil, in Madrid, Spain. He occupied part of the National Salon of Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro and received a Special Reference from the Jury, in 1985. He participated in the 19th International Biennial of São Paulo, in 1987.

A member of the so-called Generation 80, his first works were paintings, but he later worked with sculpture, video, drawing and photography. In 1995, he received the grand prize from the critics in the visual arts category from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA). That same year, in partnership with the artist Barrão (1959), the video and film editor Sérgio Mekler (1963) and the music producer Chico Neves, he created the group Chelpa Ferro (an archaic expression meaning money), which works with sculpture, technological installations and electronic music.

It has had international exhibitions in countries such as the United States, China, the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands, and exhibitions in important national institutions such as Inhotim (2013), the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ, 2012), the Maria Antônia University Center (2008) and the Tomie Ohtake Institute (2006).

His work is part of the collection of important institutions such as: Inhotim (Brumadinho, Brazil), Instituto Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil) MAM - Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and MAM - Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil).