Four years after his last solo show in Rio, Luiz Zerbini presents at Carpintaria seven new large scale paintings, as well as three monotypes and a sculptural table. For over three decades, Zerbini has developed a complex visual vocabulary in painting at the intersection of figuration, abstraction and geometry. The paintings from the current exhibition nod towards the realm of geometric abstraction, as the artist uses the grid structure to investigate the relations between color, light and object. Zerbini sees the canvas as an expanded field of possibilities, either framing the viewer’s perspective, or building immersive windows that unravel subtle figurative traces. Gemini (2018) and Vento Voa (2018), for example, reveal a malleable approach to the grid, a system that is continuously challenged by the artist, whose practice is closer to contemplation than to the irreproachable accuracy usually associated with geometric abstract
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