Gianfranco Zenerato - MOTIONLESS SILENCE

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Original work from 1999, today practically impossible to obtain. A historical piece of Gianfranco Zenerato’s production, destined to generate particular interest among collectors.

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 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 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 instantly 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 piece visually striking and collectible.

✓ Not mere decoration
Each work stems 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 possessing 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 collectible value over time.

"MOTIONLESS SILENCE" depicts a naked, kneeling, absorbed female figure, embodying a moment of suspension between reality and interiority. The rendering of the body, delicate and luminous, emphasizes the fragility of the human condition, while the geometric background and soft chromatics evoke a higher, almost cosmic order. The work becomes a dialogue between corporeality and abstraction, between sensitive life and the search for universal harmony. The title reinforces this atmosphere of calm, suggesting a still but meaning-rich time. In this context, the red drape, small but intense, disrupts the tonal balance and introduces passion and vital force that elude any rational scheme. It is the sign that life, with its pulsions, remains irreducible in the face of abstract perfection. The piece offers itself as a meditation on the relationship between silence and vitality, order and fragility, returning an intimate, universal and deeply human image.

One-of-a-kind piece 100% HAND-PAINTED - International archival certificate - Certificate of authenticity - File containing the artist’s artistic trajectory - total dimensions including frame 67.5x77.5x5 cm - oil on panel - 1999
Wonderful white wooden frame, handcrafted (as in the photo)

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 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...

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Some critiques by renowned sector experts:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that strand of 1970s artists who were stern messengers to Western society. While the Milanese Antonio Recalcati and the Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato carries a poignant warning, where humanity’s defeat can also represent the antechamber to secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, of a painter from a modern school 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 pulls us away from our dream. (Paolo Levi)

In this unsettling yet explicit visual message, the dialogue between chromatic essentialism and harmony of forms testifies to the expressive tension and mastery of a skilled artist. The interesting and new mix of flowers, fruits and contemporary technological objects (a mouse, a CD or a clock) links past, present and future. The surrounding landscape, often captured at dusk when the green ray greets the sun and welcomes the moon, emerges even more strongly what Zenerato bans on the marble canvases in the foreground, where an ever more vivid color range—from red to yellow to green and all the warmer tones of the rainbow—dominates.
And the rainbow seems to overshadow the career of this young and promising artist, a proser of art because he creates a style that is first poetic and then pictorial, capable of representing 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, 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 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