Gianfranco Zenerato - ICON

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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 have acknowledged its value and quality.

✓ Works 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 criticism
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 fuse 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 work a piece with strong visual and collecting impact.

✓ Not merely decoration
Each work arises from a research journey developed over more than three decades of professional activity and represents a synthesis of the artist’s artistic 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 piece meant not only to be admired today but to maintain its artistic, cultural and collecting value over time.

"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 a cult image: the icon of our connected time.
Owning ICON means safeguarding a fragment of the most authentic contemporary reality: a work that combines aesthetics, reflection and technological memory. A painting destined to become a testimony of our transition from the analog man to the digital man.

International Archive Certificate - Authenticity certificate signed by the author - Dossier containing the artist’s professional path
Unique piece 100% HAND-PAINTED on canvas - total dimensions including frame 29x29x3 cm - acrylic, luminescent colors on canvas - 2026
Ready to be hung - Stunning high-quality wood frame LARSON-JUHL RUBENS, internationally recognized brand for refined and durable frames.

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 awards 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.
• Critically reviewed by leading Italian critics.

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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 important 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 renowned sector experts:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that current of 1970s artists, stern messengers toward Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato carries a poignant warning, where mankind’s defeat may also be the threshold of a secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, of a modern-school painter who deftly 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, which diverts us from dreams. (Paolo Levi)

In this unsettling yet explicit visual message, the dialogue between chromatic essentialism and form harmony testifies to expressive tension and the craft of a skilled artist. Interesting and novel is the blend of flowers, fruits, and contemporary technological objects. (Stefania Bison)

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

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

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

The author focuses on the overlap and intersection of genres, on an insinuating and incisive metaphorical research in subjects and colors. With a brilliant intuition he unifies the past (still life), present (the feminine image) and future (symbolism, cryptic writing...) so that the work becomes an artistic but also literary and metanarrative paradigm. The painter is urged to identify a new visual universe, to test the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amid so much noise — remains an original discipline. The artist’s creativity then reiterates — also thanks to vibrant chromatics — how the genre-linked approach still has citizenship in 21st-century painting.

Zenerato’s painting guides us to a triple-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 view in a present that looks at the past as an ideal, yet lost, world and a future full of artificial and artificed contaminations.
It is a warning and a notice the message that emerges from the elements on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The “drum” that we find as a fixed element is telling us “attention,” time is running out, and the strong calling 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 predominated.
The female element, placed on the temporal plane of the present, represents the archetype of Mother-Earth set in the middle ground between past and future.
Gianfranco, like an 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 in the face of the complexity of a world he created, the technological one, which is slipping from his hands and thus 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 thus becomes the 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 Gianfranco Zenerato undertakes there is this temporal circular reference, this departure and return. When looking to the future, all that remains is to 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 plane, raises doubts and fears, daily times distort and take on different meanings.
Going toward the future becomes a challenge, caught in the gaze of the feminine, but also a danger because it is almost a loss of identity. Departing means facing separation from the “old self,” comprised of habits, roles and certainties. Departing is still freedom and even if this is limited because one meets 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 focal point of contraction is the direction from which one comes, and in Zenerato’s works you feel this sense of coming from one place and moving toward another. At the center is the female figure as a reference point: it is the artist’s consciousness, the heart of going, with its rhythms, noises, times, difficulties, discoveries, and emotions.
The future time plane that represents arrival is, in some works, dehumanized, and the female figure is almost crumbled because the artist himself does not recognize himself in such a placement: it is as if the loss of identity were a dismal resignation to losing the bond with the past, and even the elements of still lifes become, in some cases, almost absent and overwhelmed by technological elements.
Thus it becomes essential to protect oneself from this dangerous and almost uncontrollable future, and to retreat into something familiar 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, realize the relativity of values and points of view, ours and others. We may lose ourselves and then find ourselves again, realizing a shared nature, a shared destiny, a shared identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classical pastism with a language of pre-abstract figurativeness, against the backdrop of his inner historicizing cosmos, drifts the movable cursor of his emerging development consciousness, to the extreme urgencies of the present, subjugating his learned technique to the energy of dream, sign, symbol and above all color, rich in clarity, and timbre purity, to engage with the present, even technological. His modernity is genuinely psychological and an intensive expression of his expressive charge of variables of late 20th-century post-modern anticlassical quotation... with Caravaggesque perspectival overlaps... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt...). Zenerato has vast creative potential, poetically combining them, assembling, making the strings of the soul’s poetry vibrate on the coordinates of art history in universal values, and scanning along the cursor of his infinite imaginative evolution, through the hyperrealism of his visionary dream, a window opened plus reason, dialoguing with the present. (Professor Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting his research: the figurative achieves scenographic effects in a space where a symbolic frequency vibrates, entrusted to dream, myth, or everyday reality, all harmonized by a splendid chromatic game.

The Artist of precision and modernity
Edited 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 makes it seem as if it has never been said before. (Goethe)

It is necessary to start from Goethe’s incisive phrase to talk about the rich and innovative painting of 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 conquer his own individuality, without being influenced by past currents and masters, must overcome enormous obstacles, for as Giorgio Morandi said too, “There is nothing or very little new in the world,” and therefore to be original one should paint keeping in mind social, technological and scientific evolutions.

It is said that art is for everyone but not for everyone; everyone has the right to be moved by a masterpiece, but painting and creation is a gift God has granted only to a few elect who, capable of seeing what others often do not perceive, succeed in transforming the emotions that arise from small things, from a gesture, from a caress, from a look, into vibrant tones that color the dullness of the world surrounding us.
Among these fortunate ones surely is Maestro Zenerato, a gifted artist who makes minute detail, rigor and fantasy a painting style that, although recalling past masters, proves that the artist has learned from the lessons of beautiful painting, stealing from the greats an impeccable technique, presents a uniqueness and an individual touch of elegant modernity present in every single creation, making him a rare bird in the national artistic scene.
Bunches of flowers and ripe, lush fruit rest against high marble walls worn by years and often defaced by amorous drawings of two young lovers, intertwining 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, usually seen at dusk when the green ray greets the sun and welcomes the moon, emerges even more strongly what Zenerato banishes on the marble boards in the foreground, where a color increasingly vivid 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 first poetic and then pictorial, with which he can represent what he feels by filtering the ugliness and negativities 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, Ruggero 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