Luiz Zerbini: The Same Story is Never the Same
Museu de Arte de São Paulo
April 1 – June 5, 2022
Installation view: Luiz Zerbini: The Same Story is Never the Same, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, 2022. Photo: Isabella Matheus.
Museu de Arte de São Paulo is pleased to present Luiz Zerbini: The Same Story is Never the Same, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition held in São Paulo. The show highlights Zerbini’s diverse interests in painting, monotype, installation, landscape and botany, multicoloration, and the dialogues between abstraction, geometry, and figuration.
The exhibition features five large-scale paintings, commissioned by MASP, as a critical exploration of the history painting genre within Brazilian art. Alongside these paintings are 29 monotypes from the Macunaíma series (2017), produced for an edition of the eponymous book by Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), a classic of Brazilian Modernist literature.
Luiz Zerbini: The Same Story is Never the Same show was specially conceived within the framework of Brazilian Histories, the thematic cycle of the Museum’s 2021–22. Its subtitle, points to the reiteration of stories and histories over the centuries, as well as the need to create other narratives, bringing to light new readings, protagonists, and images.
To learn more about Luiz Zerbini: The Same Story is Never the Same, on view through June 5, click here.