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Among the most appreciated contemporary artists and fastest growing on Catawiki, Gianfranco Zenerato has already earned the trust of over 180 international collectors.

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WHY COLLECT A WORK BY GIANFRANCO ZENERATO

✓ Over 35 years of professional career
Active since 1990, Gianfranco Zenerato has developed over time a personal artistic language, recognizable and appreciated by collectors and art critics.

✓ More than 600 exhibitions and artistic events
A constant presence in the national and international art scene, built through decades of exhibition activity.

✓ Over 500 awards and recognitions
An artistic path recognized by institutions, critics and cultural organizations that acknowledged its value and quality.

✓ Works present in private and public collections
His paintings are part of collections in Italy, Europe, America and Asia, confirming international interest in his work.

✓ Appreciated by specialized critics
His artistic research has been analyzed and presented by authoritative critics and art historians, including Paolo Levi, Giammarco Puntelli, Sandro Serradifalco, Giorgio Grasso and many other professionals in the field.

✓ A unique and immediately recognizable style
Zenerato’s works merge figurative tradition, symbolism and contemporaneity. Each painting tells a story and invites the viewer to a personal and ever-new reading.

✓ Executed with high technical quality
Great attention to detail, compositional balance and chromatic intensity make each piece a visually strong and collectable work.

✓ Not just a decoration
Each work arises from a research path developed over more than three decades of professional activity and represents a synthesis of the artist’s vision.

An opportunity for the collector

Acquiring a Gianfranco Zenerato work means owning an original piece created by an artist with a long documented career, hundreds of recognitions and a consolidated presence in international collections.

A work designed not only to be admired today, but to retain its artistic, cultural and collectable value over time.

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International Archival Certificate - Certificate of authenticity signed by the author - File containing the artist’s career - total dimensions including frame 55x65.5x5 cm - acrylic, oil and sand on canvas - 2024
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GIANFRANCO ZENERATO (Professional Artist - Italy)

Active since 1990, he has embarked on an artistic path that has led him to participate in over 600 art events, receiving national and international acknowledgments 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 critiques by well-known sector experts:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that trend of 1970s artists, stern messengers to Western society. While the Milanese Antonio Recalcati and the Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato instead carries a poignant warning, where the man’s defeat can also be the antechamber of secular redemption. It is a vision rich in symbolic meanings, of a painter from a modern school who skillfully reconciles research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

One perceives from this emblematic image a kind of invitation to meditate on the beauty of a still life, a flower and a young woman. The classical nature of these silent images interrupts the suspended atmosphere of a gray world, the contemporary one, which distracts us from dreaming. (Paolo Levi)

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

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

This Gianfranco Zenerato painting is technically well structured, finely and richly articulated, and proposes reality constructed by the mind of a visionary. His works have a strong scenic component, and those who scrutinize these messages are left to decipher what meaning the artist attributed to them. He plays with symbols and cues and enjoys confusing interpretive coordinates of what could be the plot of a story camouflaged in unreality. (S. Russo)

With Gianfranco Zenerato we have an excellent idea, transformed with great skill into a depiction of anticipation, where modernity meets a time that no longer exists to make us rediscover feelings... (Giammarco Puntelli)

The author focuses on overlaying and intersection of genres, on an allusive and incisive metaphorical exploration of 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 but also literary and metanarrative paradigm. It pushes the painter to identify a new visual universe, to probe the limits of traditional iconography to prove how painting today — amid so much noise — remains an original discipline. The artist’s creativity then reaffirms — thanks also to vivid chromatic contrasts — how the approach tied to gender still has a rightful place in 21st-century painting.

Gianfranco Zenerato’s painting leads us to a three-level view of reality. It is a journey through time that we undertake with the artist, who through diverse experiments has, over the years, positioned his vision in a present that “looks” to the past as an ideal but long-lost world, and to a future full of artificial and artificed contaminations. It is a warning and an admonition the message that emerges from the elements on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The fixed “drum” you find as a constant is telling us “watch out,” time is running out, and the strong pull of natural elements placed in the foreground, contaminated by objects from 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, placed on the temporal plane of the present, represents the mother-Earth archetype placed in the middle between past and future.
Gianfranco, like an Odyssey, 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 in the face of the complexity of a world he created, the technological one, which is slipping from his hands and he feels the need to return to where he started. Thus the cyclicity returns, where the journey is this eternal call to life and death. We must return to the starting point to find ourselves, and the female figure becomes a symbol of the one 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 undertaken 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, not to be dehumanized by the technological and post-technological world.
Each journey puts rationality and emotions on the same level, giving rise to doubts and fears, the rhythms of daily life become stretched and take on different meanings.
Going toward the future becomes a challenge, caught in the feminine gaze, but also a danger because it is almost a loss of identity. When starting, one must face separation from the “old self,” made of habits, roles and certainties. Departing is still freedom, and even if it is limited because one faces 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 heading, while the hub of contraction is the direction from which one comes, and in Zenerato’s works you have this sense of provenance from one place and direction toward another. At the center the female figure as a point of reference: it is the artist’s consciousness, the heart of going, with its rhythms, noises, times, difficulties, discoveries and emotions.
The future temporal plane representing arrival is, in some works, dehumanized, and the female figure is almost eroded because the artist himself does not recognize himself in such a placement: it is as if the loss of identity were a doleful resignation to the loss of connection with the past, and even the elements of still lifes sometimes become almost absent and overwhelmed by those of the technological world.
It becomes essential, then, to protect oneself from this advancing and almost uncontrollable future, 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 reflection in a mirror. Departing with him will mean momentarily darkening those mirrors in anticipation of discovering a different image of ourselves. We may find our essence, become aware of the relativity of values and of our own and others’ points of view. We may get lost and then find ourselves again, realizing a common nature, a shared destiny, a common identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classic pasticism with a language of figurative pre-abstract, against the backdrop of his interior historizing cosmos, moves the movable cursor of his developing consciousness to the extreme urgencies of the present, submitting his learned technique to the energy of dream, sign, symbol and above all color, rich in clarity and timbral purity, to interact with the present even technologically. His modernity is genuinely psychological and an intense expression of his expressive charge of the post-modernist, late 20th-century art history with cartographic overlaps and modern psychology of post-Renaissance (Rembrandt...). Zenerato has wide historical creative potential, knowing how to combine it poetically, assembling, making the lyre of the soul’s poetry vibrate on the coordinates of art history in universal values, and in scanning the cursor of his infinite imaginative evolution, through the hyperrealism of his visionary dream, a window opened and added to reason, dialoguing with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting his research: figurative reaches scenic effects in a space where a symbolic frequency vibrates, entrusted to dream, myth, or daily reality, all harmonized by a splendid chromatic play.

The Artist of rigor and modernity
Curated by 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 a way that 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 artist Gianfranco Zenerato, and this is because through that simple sentence a great truth is told: in painting, almost everything has been done, and today the artist who seeks to win his own individuality, without being influenced by currents and Masters of the past, must overcome enormous obstacles, because as Giorgio Morandi also said, “There is little or nothing new in the world,” and therefore to be original one would have to paint with awareness of social, technological and scientific evolutions.

It is said that art is for everyone but not for all; everyone has the right to be moved by a masterpiece, but painting and creating is a gift that God has granted to only a few elect who, capable of seeing what others often do not perceive, manage to transform the emotions that arise from small things, from a gesture, from a caress, from a look, into vibrant tones that color the greyness of the world around us.
Among these fortunate ones we must surely include Master Zenerato, a talented artist like few, who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy one painting style that, though reminiscent of Masters of the past, shows that the artist has learned from the lessons of fine painting, stealing from the greats an impeccable technique, presents a uniqueness and an individuality visible in that touch of elegant modernity present in every single creation, making him a rare bird in the national artistic panorama.
Vines of flowers and ripe, lush fruit, laid on high marble walls worn by the years and often smeared with amorous drawings of two young lovers, intertwine with objects of modern daily life, such as a CD-ROM, a mouse, a spatula, which become the linkage between past, present and future; the surrounding landscape, almost always captured at dusk when the green ray salutes the sun and welcomes the moon, emerges even more strongly what Zenerato bans on the marble boards in the foreground, where a color that is increasingly vivid ranges from red, to yellow, to green, and to 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 first poetic and then pictorial, with which he manages to represent what he feels by 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