Luiz Zerbini in Conversation with Frank Walter, the inaugural exhibition at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel’s new space in São Paulo, curated by Barbara Paca, presents an unprecedented dialogue between small-format landscape paintings by Brazilian artist Luiz Zerbini and Antiguan artist Frank Walter (1926–2009). Masters of atmosphere in their own distinct ways, both artists reveal a deep engagement with memory, perception, and the porous boundaries between human and nonhuman environments. Light, color, and gesture converge to articulate time, place, and vision, expanding the language of landscape beyond its conventional frames.

For Walter, landscape was a lifelong companion in his travels across Antigua, the Caribbean, and Europe. His small-scale paintings capture the shifting moods of different geographies with an eye attuned to both detail and atmosphere. Filtering these experiences through memory, his works distill the essence of places encountered, transforming them into meditations on belonging and imagination. Zerbini, in turn, presents a suite of watercolors portraying Brazilian coastal vistas. With a delicacy of touch and luminous palette, these works capture the play of light on sea and vegetation, rendering the changing atmospheres of shoreline environments with immediacy and intimacy.

Placed side by side, these works construct a transatlantic dialogue in which Walter and Zerbini explore the relationship between vision and place, order and spontaneity. Each composition becomes both transcription and invention, a site where sensation and structure entwine. By linking the Caribbean and Brazil, the exhibition highlights a shared sensitivity to light, color, and terrain, revealing how landscape painting can register distinct cultural contexts while also opening onto a broader, interconnected experience of the natural world.

Leisurely Floating Luminescence, a new exhibition by Luiz Zerbini in São Paulo, is on view at our space in Barra Funda.