It’s being so long since I was thinking about to show you those 3 guys...



Then yesterday I found in an old box a precious Chelpa Ferro CD, so that's the time.

Chelpa Ferro is an art group created in 1995 by the artists Jorge Barrão, Luiz Zerbini and Sergio Mekler.

Hermano Vianna - anthropologist - wrote a release for Chelpa Ferro CD, 1997

“Chelpa Ferro is a band from Rio de Janeiro, formed by a nucleus of fine artists. Barrão is known for his sculptures where machines copulate with each other, and are transformed into Deleuzian-slum creatures. Sérgio Mekler is one of the most sought after editors of video and cinema in Brazil, winner of several awards for best editing of music videos at the MTV Brazil Music Video Awards. Luis Zerbini is one of the most recognized Brazilian painters to come out of the 1980’s. His paintings also edit images from various sources creating pleasantly unbalanced tonalities.
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"Other members are invited to collaborate on specific projects such as albuns, videos, exhibitions and performances. All of them exclude their previous artistic identities and the work is signed simply by Chelpa Ferro.
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Chelpa’s first project was a musical CD, which included an interactive track.
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"As a perverse parody of a rock show, a stand sold Chelpa Ferro Products: shirts, pens, granola, and even a homemade cachaça with the label Chelpinha da Roça.”
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“In the context of Brazil, Chelpa Ferro acts as a strange agent in the field of visual art as well as in the environment of pop music. Maybe this is their role: not to be limited to any area, inventing escape routes from or between conventional categories.”




Totoro - 2009 - Pinacoteca de São Paulo


Jungle Jam - 2008 - Galeria Vermelho São Paulo


picture by LED :)


meskalito gallery, Londres

For me, they are totally in the fine arts field, not only because of all galleries exhibitions but I really don't believe that sophisticated work should be included into Brazilian pop music weak concept. Check their website and also subscribe their YouTube channel.

I would love to attach a track...
Good night!