Gianfranco Zenerato - ICON

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Gianfranco Zenerato (Professional Artist - Italy)

• Active since 1990, with over 600 participation in national and international art events.
• Recognized for the high quality of works, with over 500 prizes received.
• Present in public and private collections in Italy, Europe, America and Asia.
• Has exhibited alongside masters such as Antonio Nunziante, Athos Faccincani, Alfonso Borghi, Giuseppe Menozzi, Giampaolo Talani, Saturno Buttò, etc.
• Reviewed by leading Italian critics.

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Unique hand-painted piece - total dimensions including frame 32x32x4 cm - acrylic, metallic pigments and luminescent varnishes - 2026
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"ICON" is a visual reflection on the sacredness of technology. The everyday object, a mouse, is sublimated into a relic of digital thought, the center of a chromatic energy that vibrates like an aura. The painting material becomes the language of the information flow, translating the mechanical gesture into inner perception. The artist transforms functionality into a symbol, returning to the present an image of veneration: the icon of our connected era.
Owning ICON means safeguarding a fragment of the most authentic contemporaneity: a work that unites aesthetics, reflection and technological memory. A painting destined to become a testament to our transition from the analog man to the digital man.

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GIANFRANCO ZENERATO (Professional Artist - Italy)

Active since 1990, he has pursued an artistic path that has led him to participate in over 600 art events, receiving national and international recognitions for the quality of his works. With over 500 awards to his name, his creations enrich significant public and private collections in Italy, Europe, America and Asia. He has exhibited alongside masters such as Antonio Nunziante, Athos Faccincani, Alfonso Borghi, Giuseppe Menozzi, Giampaolo Talani, Saturno Buttò, etc...

Currently, he collaborates with the renowned art critic, Prof. Giammarco Puntelli.

Some of the countless reviews by well-known experts in the art world:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that current of 1970s artists, stern messengers to Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato carries a poignant warning, where the defeat of man can also represent the threshold of secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, of a modern school painter who, with talent, reconciles research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

One notices in this emblematic image a kind of invitation to meditate on the beauty of a still life, a flower and a young woman. The classicism of these silent images interrupts the suspended atmosphere of a gray world, the contemporary one, that diverts us from the dream. (Paolo Levi)

In this inquiet and explicit visual message, the dialogue between chromatic essentiality and the harmony of forms testifies to expressive tension and the mastery of a skilled artist. Interesting and original is the blend of flowers, fruits and contemporary technological objects. (Stefania Bison)

Gianfranco Zenerato elaborates sign-based narratives that reveal, step by step, the infinite possibilities of a fertile imaginary, organized according to ordered sequences of his mental elaborations. His fanciful constructions could thus confuse critical judgment in defining him a surrealist. This is not correct, as he does not propose an absurd and unreal imaginary, but rather, he paints a reality familiar to us, with a purpose that is communicative and highly symbolic. (Sandro Serradifalco)

This painting by Gianfranco Zenerato is technically well-structured, finely and richly articulated, and proposes the reality created by the mind of a visionary. His works have a strong scenographic component, and those who study these messages are left to decipher what meaning the author attributed to them. He indeed plays with symbols and allusions and enjoys confusing the interpretative coordinates of what could be the intertwining of a story camouflaged in unreality. (S. Russo)

With Gianfranco Zenerato we have an excellent idea, transformed with great ability into a figurative of waiting, where modernity meets a time that no longer exists to reacquaint us with feelings... (Giammarco Puntelli)

The author focuses on overlaying and intersecting genres, on a concise and metaphorical investigation into subjects and colors. With a brilliant intuition, he unifies past (still life), present (the female image) and future (symbolism, cryptic writing ...) so that the work becomes an artistic and literary and metanarrative paradigm. He pushes the painter to identify a new visual universe, to probe the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amid much noise — is still an original discipline. The artist’s creativity therefore reaffirms — also thanks to the striking chromatics — how the approach tied to gender still has a place in 21st-century painting.

Zenerato’s painting leads us to a three-level vision of reality. It is a journey through time that we undertake with the artist, who through various experiments has come to place his vision in a present that “looks” to the past as an ideal but lost world, and a future full of artificial and artificial contaminations.
It is a warning and a caution the message that emerges from the elements on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The “drum kit” that we find as a fixed element tells us “attention,” time is running out, and the strong call of natural elements placed in the foreground, contaminated by objects of the technological world (the mouse, the CD or the alarm clock) emphasize how important it is not to sever the link with the past, with a world where nature was predominant.
The female element, positioned on the temporal plane of the present, represents the archetype of the mother-Earth placed in the middle ground between past and future.
Gianfranco, like Odysseus, travels in this temporal dimension, in search of the forces that sustain and shape us, alter or govern our fate. Pushed toward the future, the man-artist faces the journey with strength and determination, but then realizes his own fragility before the complexity of a world he created, the technological one, that is slipping from his hands and he feels, therefore, the need to return to where he started. Thus the cyclicity returns where the journey is this eternal summons to life and death. We must return to the starting point to find ourselves and the feminine figure becomes a symbol of she who allows us to be reborn.
The words “to depart” and “to give birth” both contain the concept of separation and detachment, and in every journey made by Gianfranco Zenerato there is this circular temporal reference, this departure and return. When looking to the future, we can only turn our gaze to the past to not lose our roots, to not be dehumanized by the technological and post-technological world.
Each journey puts reason and emotions on the same level, raises doubts and fears, daily times distort and take on different meanings.
Going toward the future becomes a challenge, captured in the feminine gaze, but also a danger because it is almost a loss of identity. To depart means facing separation from the “old self,” made of habits, roles and certainties. Leaving is still freedom, and even if it is limited because it leads to the unknown, it manages to bring order to the past. The moving perspective becomes centrifugal and centripetal, the flow of expansion is the direction one is going, while the axis of contraction is the direction from which one comes, and in Zenerato’s works one has this feeling of coming from a place and moving toward another. At the center the feminine figure as a reference point: it is the artist’s conscience, the heart of going, with its rhythms, noises, times, difficulties, discoveries and emotions.
The temporal plane of the future that represents arrival is, in some works, dehumanized, and the feminine figure is almost crumbled because the artist himself does not recognize himself in that placement: it is as if the loss of identity were a disconsolate resignation to the loss of tie with the past and even the elements of still lifes become, in some cases, almost absent and overpowered by those of the technological world.
It becomes fundamental, then, to protect oneself from this advancing future, which progresses dangerously and almost uncontrollably, and to take refuge in something known and ancient where even “illusions are real.”
With Gianfranco Zenerato we truly have the possibility to travel through dreams, signs and symbols, where each of us will see our own reflected in a mirror. Leaving with him will mean momentarily obscuring those mirrors in anticipation of discovering a different image of ourselves. We may find our essence, realize the relativity of values and points of view, ours and others. We may get lost and then find ourselves again, realizing a common nature, a common destiny, a common identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

Starting from classic pasticism with a language of pre-abstract figurative art, against the backdrop of his internal historicizing cosmos, the mobile cursor of his developing consciousness ranges to the extreme urgencies of the present, submitting his learned technique to the energy of dream, sign, symbol and especially color, rich in clarity, and timbral purity, to interact with the present even technologically. His modernity is genuinely psychological and an intensive expression of his expressive charge of transavant-garde citational evolution from the late 20th century onward... with Caravaggesque perspective overlays ... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt ...). Zenerato has wide-ranging creative potential, poetically combining it, assembling, making the harp of the soul’s poetry vibrate on the coordinates of art history in universal values, and scaling on the cursor of his infinite imaginative evolution, through the hyperrealism of his visionary dream, a window opened combined with reason. dialoguing with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting is his research: figuration achieves scenic effects in a space where a symbolic frequency vibrates, entrusted from time to time to dream, to myth, or to everyday reality, all harmonized by a splendid chromatic game.

The Artist of rigor and modernity
Guest editor: Francesco Cairone

The most original authors are not so because they promote what is new, but because they express what they have to say in such a way that it seems it has never been said before. (Goethe)

It is necessary to start from Goethe’s incisive phrase to speak of the rich and innovative painting of Gianfranco Zenerato, and this because through that simple phrase a great truth is told, namely that in painting everything has already been done and today the artist who seeks to conquer his own individuality, without being influenced by currents and past Masters, must overcome enormous obstacles because as also Giorgio Morandi claimed, “There is nothing or very little new in the world,” and therefore to be original one should paint with awareness of social, technological and scientific evolutions.

It is said that art belongs to everyone but not to everyone; everyone has the right to be moved by a masterpiece, but painting and creating is a gift that God has granted only to a few elect who, capable of seeing what others often do not perceive, can transform the emotions that arise from small things, from a gesture, from a caress, from a look, into vibrant tones that color the grayness of the world around us.
Among these lucky ones one must certainly include Maestro Zenerato, a talented artist who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy one painting style that, though it recalls the great Masters, proves that the artist has learned the lessons of beautiful painting, borrowing from the greats an impeccable technique, presenting a uniqueness and an individuality visible in that touch of elegant modernity present in every single creation, which makes him a rare bird in the national art scene.
Floral canopies and ripe, lush fruit, resting on high marble walls worn by the years and often smeared with the amorous drawings of two young lovers, intertwine with objects of modern daily life, such as a CD-ROM, a mouse, a spatula, which become a link between past, present and future; the surrounding landscape, almost always captured at dusk when the green ray greets the sun and welcomes the moon, emerges with even more vigor what Zenerato bans on the marble boards in the foreground, where an ever more vivid color ranges from red to yellow to green and all the warmer tones of the rainbow.
And the rainbow seems to overshadow the career of this young and promising artist, a prose writer of art because he creates a style that is at first poetic and then painterly, with which he can represent what he feels, filtering the ugliness and negativity that our world carries.

They have written about him or judged his works:

Paolo Levi, Paolo Rizzi, Giammarco Puntelli, Giorgio Grasso, Sergio Capellini, Pietro Gasperini, Francois Buisson, R. Boschi, Michele Nocera, Carlo Alberto Gobbetti, Antonella Gotti, Gianni Ingolia, Dino Pasquali, Umberto Zaccaria, Umberto Tessari, Ottorino Stefani, Giulio Gasparotti, Carlo Federico Teodoro, Carlo Rigoni, Giorgio Trevisan, Vera Meneguzzo, Claudio Radaelli, Grillo Biagio, Luca Dall’Olio, Franco Brescianini, Giovanni B. Bianchini, Mara Frignani, Aldo Tavella, Angelo Marchiori, Walter Coccetta, Paolo Baratella, Luciano Chinese, Luigi Consonni, Giuseppe Possa, Silvano Valentini, Siro Perin, Alfredo Pasolino, etc...

He has collaborated with the following galleries:

Galleria Cd Studio d'Arte
Galleria New Dimensione Arte
Galleria Emmediarte
Galleria La Spadarina
Galleria l'Artista
Galleria Arttime
Galleria Orler