Gianfranco Zenerato - ICON

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WHY COLLECT A GIANFRANCO ZENERATO WORK

✓ 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 celebrated by institutions, critics and cultural organizations that have recognized 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 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 combine figurative tradition, symbolism and contemporaneity. Each painting tells a story and invites the viewer to a personal and always new reading.

✓ Works created 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 a decoration
Each work arises from a research path developed over more than three decades of professional activity and represents a synthesis of the author’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 work designed 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 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 object of cult: the icon of our connected time.

Possessing ICON means guarding a fragment of the most authentic contemporaneity: a work that unites aesthetics, reflection and technological memory. A painting destined to become a testimony of our passage from the analog man to the digital man.

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Piece unique 100% HAND-PAINTED - total dimensions including frame 39x49x3 cm - acrylic, sand and special luminescent varnishes on canvas - 2024
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GIANFRANCO ZENERATO (Professional Artist - Italy)

Active since 1990, he has undertaken an artistic path that 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 well-known art critic, Prof. Giammarco Puntelli.

Some critiques by renowned experts in the field:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that current of artists of the seventies, stern messengers toward Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato carries a poignant warning, where the defeat of man may also represent the vestibule of secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, from a modern painting school artist who, with talent, harmonizes research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

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

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

Gianfranco Zenerato develops 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 as a surrealist. This is not correct, since he does not present us with an absurd and unreal imaginary, but rather paints a reality familiar to us, with a communicative and highly symbolic purpose. (Sandro Serradifalco)

This painting by Gianfranco Zenerato 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 indeed plays with symbols and cues and enjoys confusing interpretive coordinates of what could be the plot of a story camouflaged as unreality. (S. Russo)

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

The author relies on the overlay and intersection of genres, on an insinuating and incisive metaphoric 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. The painter is urged to identify a new visual universe, to probe the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amid so much noise — remains an original discipline. The artist's creativity then reaffirms — also thanks to the dazzling chromes — that the gender-related approach still has a right to citizenship in 21st-century painting.

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 various experiments has over the years placed his vision in a present that looks to the past as an ideal but lost world, and to a future full of artificial contaminations and artifices.

It is a warning and a forewarning the message that emerges from the elements on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The “battery” we find as a fixed element is saying “attention,” time is about to run out, and the strong call of natural elements 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 and with a world in which nature was predominant.

The female element, placed on the temporal plane of the present, represents the archetype of the mother-Earth placed in the middle ground between the past and the future.

Gianfranco, like an Odysseus, travels in this temporal dimension, seeking 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, which is slipping away from him and he feels, therefore, the need to return to where he started. Thus the cyclicity returns, where the journey is this eternal call to life and death. We will have to return to the starting point to find ourselves again, and the feminine figure thus becomes a symbol of the one who allows us to be reborn.

The words “to depart” and “to beget” both contain the concept of separation and detachment, and in every journey undertaken by Gianfranco Zenerato there is this temporal circular reminder, this departure and then return. When looking to the future, we only have 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 reason and emotion on the same level, raises doubts and fears, ordinary 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. Starting out requires facing separation from the old self, made of habits, roles and certainties. Departing is still freedom, and even if this 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 moving toward, while the hub of contraction is the direction from which one comes, and in Zenerato’s works one has this sense of coming from one place and moving toward another. At the center the feminine 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 time plane 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 desolate resignation to losing ties with the past, and even still life elements become, in some cases, almost absent and overwhelmed by technological ones.

It becomes essential, then, to protect oneself from this future, which advances dangerously and almost uncontrollably, and to seek refuge in something familiar and ancient where even “illusions are real.”

With Gianfranco Zenerato we truly have the opportunity 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 of points of view, ours and others. We may lose ourselves 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 pre-abstract figurative, within the backdrop of his inner historicizing cosmos, moves the movable cursor of his consciousness of developing emergence, up to the extreme urgencies of the present, subduing 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 in a technological sense. His modernity is genuinely psychological and an expressive rendering of his expressive charge of the postmodern trans-avant-garde citational era of the late 20th century onward... with Caravaggesque perspective overlays ... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt ...). Zenerato has broad creative potential, poetically combining them, 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 added to reason. dialoguing with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

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

The Artist of Rigor 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 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 is because through that simple sentence a great truth is told: that in painting nothing new can be done, and today the artist who seeks to conquer his own individuality, without being influenced by currents and the Masters of the past, must overcome enormous obstacles, because as Giorgio Morandi also asserted, “There is little or nothing new in the world,” and therefore to be original one should paint considering 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 creating is a gift that God has granted only to a few elect who, able to see what others often do not perceive, manage to transform the emotions arising from small things, from a gesture, a caress, a look, into vibrant tones that color the grayness of the world around us.

Among these lucky ones surely belongs Master Zenerato, a talented artist who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy a painting style that, while recalling past Masters in the mind, proves that the artist has learned from the lessons of beautiful painting and has stolen from the greats an impeccable technique, presents a uniqueness and a visible individuality in that touch of elegant modernity present in every single creation, which makes him a rare exception in the national artistic panorama.

Vines of flowers and ripe, lush fruit rest on high walls of marble worn by the years and often stained by amorous drawings of two young lovers, interwoven 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 greater vigor what Zenerato banishes on the marble boards in the foreground, where a color 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, prose writer of art because he creates a style that is first poetic and then painterly, with which he can 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