{"id":2329,"date":"2013-10-09T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2013-11-01T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:58:12","slug":"zerbini-at-max-wigram-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/zerbini-at-max-wigram-london\/","title":{"rendered":"“Papagaio do Futuro”: Luiz Zerbini at Max Wigram Gallery, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ret\u00e2ngulos<\/p>\n

9 October-9 November 2013<\/p>\n

“Papagaio do Futuro” comprises figurative and\u00a0abstract paintings, collages and sculpture, which reference the recurrent themes of temporality, memory,\u00a0and modernity. With these works, Luiz Zerbini (b. 1959, Sao Paulo, Brazil) resolves the duality between figuration and abstraction,\u00a0blending nature and architecture, surface and depth, materiality and opticality.<\/p>\n

Zerbini\u2019s work combines myriad sources, borrowing from the cityscapes of Rio de Janeiro, art history, and pop culture. The artist uses grids in many of his works, including\u00a0in\u00a0collages of old photographic slides, some hollowed out, some filled with coloured gels, intervening on a\u00a0collection of memory. In Zerbini\u2019s work, everything is dislocated: the landscape loses its depth, and the grid gains it.<\/p>\n

Here the grid bursts out of the pictorial plane and takes over the objects that populate Zerbini\u2019s reality. Zerbini collects from this reality not only what he sees, but also its spiritual nature, into what he calls “bins” of memory–materialised in the abstract shapes of geometry, light and colour. For Zerbini, “the little coloured rectangles in the paintings seem to be bearers of random information, without a defined meaning. Disconcerting information, able to provoke a feeling of strangeness.” This feeling is embodied in the hollowed out slides in Pattern<\/em>: these are empty carriers of information and memory,\u00a0simultaneously hosting time and no time, they are a place and no place at once. They are the matrix of\u00a0Zerbini\u2019s work, encapsulating opposing impulses and resolving them in works that do not suppress, but\u00a0embrace multi-directional tensions in a flickering harmony.<\/p>\n

\"InstallationZerbini\u2019s exploration of memory points at wider notions of time. Temporality for Zerbini is a multifaceted concept that includes ideas of modernity, the future, the past, and timelessness. The grid\u00a0thus takes on another role: ubiquitous in the art of the 20th century, it becomes a memento of a future\u00a0that has gone, it is the emblem of modernity, but it belongs to the past. Conversely, the “future” of the\u00a0exhibition\u2019s title alludes at a future that, instead, never seems to come. Zerbini however does not\u00a0surrender to melancholy. The fluidity of his notion of time is discernible in the continuity between his\u00a0works and exhibitions over the years, which are connected like thoughts in a stream of consciousness.\u00a0And a positive, electric energy in palpable in the new works, each square or “bin” referring to a sense of\u00a0speed, a useless digital speed. These capsules bring with them more data than mere information: they\u00a0carry memories and emotions, thrill and pulse – instilling new life in emblems of a bygone future.<\/p>\n

(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Max Wigram Gallery<\/strong>
\n106 New Bond Street
\nLondon W1S 1DN United Kingdom
\n(020) 7495 4960<\/p>\n

Hours:<\/strong>
\nTuesday-Friday, 10AM-6PM
\nSaturday, Noon-5PM
\nor by appointment<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0| FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Image (top):<\/strong>
\nRet\u00e2ngulos e sombras<\/em>
\nby Luiz Zerbini
\n34″x38″ framed
\nslides and tape
\n2013
\nImage courtesy of Max Wigram Gallery and the artist<\/p>\n

Image (middle):<\/strong>
\nInstallation view, Luiz Zerbini, “Papagaio do Futuro”, Max Wigram Gallery, London, 2013
\nImage courtesy of Max Wigram Gallery and the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

9 October-9 November 2013<\/p>\n

Luiz Zerbini’s “Papagaio do Futuro” comprises figurative and abstract paintings, collages and sculpture, which reference the recurrent themes of temporality, memory, and modernity. With these works, Zerbini (b. 1959, Sao Paulo, Brazil) resolves the duality between figuration and abstraction, blending nature and architecture, surface and depth, materiality and opticality.<\/p>\n

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