Gianfranco Asveri (1948) - il ciuco

Title: The Donkey

exemplar no: 65/200 numbered bottom left

Signature bottom right in pencil

technique: poly-material screen print on paper in 18 colors produced in 200 + L copies signed and numbered

Author: Born in Fiorenzuola d'Arda in 1948, Asveri lives and works at the Gasperini on the Piacenza hills in the company of his dogs. He did not attend academies nor did he pursue other kinds of artistic studies. In 1969 he began painting, finding in art a reason for living. After an initial period in which he expressed himself with a traditional figurative language, from the Eighties his painting arrived at a more instinctive and personal gesture, rich in color and matter, close to the Expressionism of Art Brut. Representing a painting style strongly instinctive and emotional, Asveri attacks the surface with a commanding and primitive gesture, which nevertheless allows coexistence with other expressive matrices less perceptible, memory of artistic images. With a deep and vital impulse, Asveri's painting springs from the observation of reality: the animals that the artist gathers and cares for, with whom he lives and whom he loves above all, to whom he dedicates drawings, paintings and poems. The daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore has recently singled him out among the ten leading artists of the Italian art market. Critics such as Luca Beatrice, Paolo Blendinger, Beatrice Buscaroli, Luciano Caprile, Martina Corgnati, Maurizio Corgnati, Elda Fezzi, Stefano Fugazza, Flaminio Gualdoni, Elisabetta Longari, Lorenzo Kamel, Domenico Montalto, Nicoletta Pallini, Elena Pontiggia, Giovanni Quaglino, Alessandro Riva, Marco Rosci, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Giorgio Seveso, Claudio Vela and the poet Ferdinando Cogni have written about him.