With text by Adriano Pedrosa, Guilherme Giufrida. Text by Clarissa Diniz, Fred Coelho, Kleber Amancio, Lilia Schwarcz, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Naine Terena. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from May 2 to June 5, 2022 at the MASP. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
This volume follows the artist's exhibition at MASP, his first solo show at a museum in Sao Paulo. The curatorial conception of the exhibition was born from Zerbini's painting A Primeira Missa (2014), in which the artist interrogates the canonical 19th-century painting by Victor Meirelles (1861), reimagining the scene between the Portuguese colonizers and the indigenous people of Brazil. For the exhibition, Zerbini created four new paintings that follow this revisionist procedure. The book includes these new works as well as a suite of monoprints. Luiz Zerbini, a multimedia provocateur with close ties to Brazil¿s pop culture since the 1980s, paints a dramatic five-century history of this complex country at the exhibition Luiz Zerbini: a mesma historia nunca e a mesma (The Same Story is Never the Same)ð at the MASP museum in Sao Paulo. His exuberant perspective offers a bold twist with obvious nuances of activism on epic national events. He appropriates heralded tableaus and vintage photographs of news reportage that have frozen historical moments with the calculation and guile of official history exposed by the artist in five large paintings in high-adrenaline, Tropicalia colors along with fifty monoprints of indigenous tropical plants, representing Brazil¿s extraordinary plant world. The exhibition by the Sao Paulo-born artist, who adopted Rio as his hometown, showcases a long process of social, political and economic struggle intimately related to the troubled legacy of a mixed-race cauldron with deep-rooted socio-political dysfunction which persists in these times of sharply polarized views. o matter how vanguard he can be, the sixty-two-year-old Zerbini never let go of the paint and brush tradition. His art nourishes his ardent view of things Brazilian: the Brazilianity of his themes, his fascination with tropical modernist architecture, his passion for Rio de Janeiro and its tropical light, and his boundless love for irreverence, music, plants and painting. All this was hinted at in his early days, when he got out of FAAP, the uni of Sao Paulo¿s upper crust, with a degree in fine arts. The next step was photography classes with Carlos Moreira and watercolor with Dudi Maia Rosa, marriage to multi-talented comedienne and provocateur Regina Case, and crowning participation in the iconic 1984 group show that changed Brazil¿s art landscape: Como Vai Voce, Geracʹao 80?ð (How Are You, 80s Generation?). Along with artist friends Barrao and Sergio Mekler in the nineties, he founded the multimedia musical collective Chelpa Ferro (money in English), which participated in the 2010 Sao Paulo Bienal, and has since embarked on a successful international career. For all his continued irreverence and indisputable talent, Zerbini has a cult-hero following among young artists.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1327782522
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.