Luiz Pierre Zerbini (São Paulo, SP, 1959). Multimedia artist. At the age of four, he began to take painting lessons with Van Acker (1931-2000). Later he studied photography with Carlos Moreira (1936) and watercolor with Dudi Maia Rosa (1946). Between 1978 and 1980 he attended the fine arts course at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (Faap), in São Paulo. In the early 1980s he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as a scenographer for the theater group Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone and gave performances in Rio de Janeiro bars in partnership with the actress Regina Casé (1954). He held his first solo exhibition in 1982, at Casa do Brasil, in Madrid, Spain. He occupied part of the Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Rio de Janeiro and received a Special Mention from the Jury in 1985. He participated in the 19th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo in 1987. A member of the so-called Geração 80, his first artworks are paintings, but later he works with sculpture, video, drawing, and photography. In 1995, he received the Critics' Grand Prize in the Visual Arts category from the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (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 (an archaic expression meaning money), which works with sculpture, technological installations, and electronic music.
LUIZ Zerbini. In: ENCICLOPÉDIA Itaú Cultural de Arte e Cultura Brasileiras. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural, 2021. Available at: <http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/pessoa9162/luiz-zerbini>. Accessed on: 25 Jun. 2021. Encyclopedia entry. ISBN: 978-85-7979-060-7