Luiz Zerbini – Bicho do mato, Rome

By appointment only roma@sprovieri.com 

Sprovieri is delighted to announce a forthcoming exhibition of new works by Luiz Zerbini in Rome.

The exhibition charts the complex, multi-layered visual vocabulary the artist has developed over more than four decades—a practice existing at the fluid intersection of geometric abstraction, botanical reality, and the architectural memory of the Global South.

Within the setting of Palazzo Borghese built in 1560, Luiz Zerbini's pictorial exploration enters into a direct, almost hypnotic dialogue with the summer bedroom 18th-century decorative history. The space walls, divided into panels bordered by herms and ornamental motifs, simulate a perspective opening toward a garden. Conceived by artists such as Giovan Battista Marchetti and Angelo Stringini, these spaces reflect an antiquarian desire to simulate nature indoors through Neoclassical faux pergolas and illusory garden vistas.

Zerbini subverts this European ideal of controlled nature by inserting the real, proliferating weight of tropical landscapes into the architecture. By depicting foliage, forests, and dense vegetal networks, Zerbini translates the interactions of ecosystems into pictorial language. These proliferating organic forms intersect with hard-edged geometries and modular structures, creating a dynamic tension between growth and order.