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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 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 numerous 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 ever-new reading.

✓ High technical quality in his works
-Great attention to detail, compositional balance and vibrant color make each piece visually striking and collectible.

✓ Not merely decoration
-Every work arises from a research path developed over more than three decades of professional activity and represents a synthesis of the artist's artistic vision.

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GIANFRANCO ZENERATO (Professional Artist - Italy)
He began his career in 1990, embarking on a long path that would see his works present at more than 600 art events.
A nationally and internationally award-winning artist.
Over 500 prizes won.
His works are part of important private and public collections in Italy, Europe, America, Asia.
He has exhibited alongside artists of calibre such as Antonio Nunziante, Athos Faccincani, Alfonso Borghi, Giuseppe Menozzi, Giampaolo Talani, Saturno Buttò, etc..
He currently collaborates with the renowned art critic Prof. Giammarco Puntelli.

Some critiques from well-known sector experts:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that current of artists from the seventies, stern messengers towards Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato instead bears a poignant warning, where human defeat may also represent the threshold of secular redemption. It is a vision rich in symbolic meaning, of a painter from a modern school, who with talent reconciles research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

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

In this inquietingly explicit visual message, the dialogue between chromatic essentiality and the harmony of forms testifies to the expressive tension and mastery of a skilled artist. Interesting and new 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 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 accurate, as he does not propose an absurd or 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 reality built by the mind of a visionary. His works have a strong scenic component, and for those who scrutinize these messages, remains to decipher what meaning the author attributed to them. He plays with symbols and allusions and enjoys confusing the interpretive coordinates of what could be the weave of a story camouflaged as unreality. (Salvatore Russo)

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

The author focuses on overlapping and intersecting genres, on an insinuating and incisive metaphorical research in subjects and colors. With stunning intuition he unifies past (still life), present (the female image) and future (symbolism, cryptic writing ...) so that the work becomes both an artistic and literary and metanarrative paradigm. The painter is driven to discover a new visual universe, to explore 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 vibrant chromatics — how the genre-based approach still has a rightful place in 21st-century painting.

Zenerato's painting leads us to a three-tier 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 now lost world, and to a future full of artificial and artificial contaminations.
It is a warning and a caution the message that appears from the elements on the canvas surrounding his overall view. The “drum” that we find as a fixed element is telling us “attention,” time is running out, and the strong call of natural elements set 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 bond with the past, with a world where nature was predominant.
The feminine element, placed 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 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 before the complexity of a world he created, the technological one, that is slipping away from him, and therefore 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 a symbol of the one who allows us to be reborn.
The words “leave” and “give birth” both contain the concept of separation and detachment, and in every journey undertaken by Gianfranco Zenerato there is this temporal circular 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 places rationality and emotions on the same level, raising doubts and fears, the times of daily life distort and take on different meanings.
Going toward the future becomes a challenge, captured in the gaze of the female, but also a danger because it is almost a loss of identity. Leaving means facing separation from the “old self,” made of habits, roles and certainties. Leaving is still freedom and even if this is limited because one goes toward 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 focal point of contraction is the direction from which one comes, and in Zenerato's works one has this sense of coming from a place and heading 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 temporal plane of the future which represents arrival is, in some works, dehumanized, and the female figure is almost dissolved because the artist himself does not recognize himself in that placement: it is as if the loss of identity were a desolate resignation to the loss of connection with the past and even the elements of still lifes become, in some cases, almost absent and overwhelmed by the technological ones.
Therefore it becomes essential to protect oneself from this future, advancing perilously and almost uncontrollably, and to seek 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, realize the relativity of values and of our own and others’ points of view. We may get lost and then find ourselves again, becoming aware of a common nature, a shared destiny, and a common identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classic pastism with a language of figurative pre-abstract art, on the background of his inner historicizing cosmos spans the moving cursor of his developing consciousness, up 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 variables of late 20th-century post-modernist quotation... with Caravaggesque perspective overlays ... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt ...). Zenerato has wide creative potentials in historical scope, poetically combining them, assembling, making the string 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, engaging with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting is his research: figurative reaches scenic effects in a space where a symbolic frequency vibrates, entrusted from time to time to dream, myth, or daily reality, everything 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 seems 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 artist Gianfranco Zenerato, and this because through that simple phrase a great truth is told, namely that in painting almost everything has been done and today the artist who tries to conquer his own individuality, without being influenced by currents and Masters of the past, must overcome enormous obstacles because, as Giorgio Morandi also argued, “There is almost nothing 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 belongs to everyone but is not for everyone; everyone, therefore, 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 that arise from small things, from a gesture, from a caress, from a look, into vibrant tones that color the dullness of the world around us.
Among these lucky ones one must certainly count Master Zenerato, a talented artist like few others, who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy his painting style, which although recalling past Masters, demonstrates that the artist has taken advantage of the lessons of fine painting, stealing from the greats an impeccable technique, presenting a uniqueness and a visible individuality in that touch of elegant modernity present in every single creation, which makes him a rare bird in the national artistic panorama.
Bunches of flowers and ripe, lush fruit, resting on high marble walls worn by the years and often smeared with amorous drawings by two young lovers, intertwine with objects of modern everyday life, such as a CD-ROM, a mouse, a spatula, which become the 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 bans on the marble boards in the foreground, where a more vivid color ranges from red, to yellow, to green, and to all the warm 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 initially poetic and then pictorial, through which he captures what he feels, filtering the ugliness and negative aspects that our world carries with it.

Some of the main awards:
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Main personal and collective exhibitions:
1993 Collective “Young Artists in Bra’” - Verona
1997 Solo show, Spazio Espositivo Società Belle Arti - Verona
1999 Solo show, Spazio Espositivo Società Belle Arti - Verona
1999 Solo show, Galleria La Torretta - Verona
1999 Solo show, Galleria Fra’ Giocondo - Verona
1999 Collective “Verona meets Milan” Galleria Renzo Cortina - Milan
1999 Collective Santo Stefano di Zimella - Verona
2000 Collective “Artists of 2000” Galleria Centro Arte Bologna
2001 Collective “Great Artists at Centro Arte Bologna”
2001 Solo show, Spazio Espositivo Società Belle Arti - Verona
2001 Collective Sala dell'Arsenale Società Belle Arti - Verona
2002 Collective Sala dell'Arsenale Società Belle Arti - Verona
2003 Art Show by invitation, municipal exhibition space - Pescantina (Vr)
2003 Solo show, Spazio Espositivo Società Belle Arti - Verona
2005 Solo show, Sala Espositiva Palazzo Corte Salvi - Bovolone (Vr)
2006 Solo show, Sala Espositiva Palazzo Corte Salvi - Bovolone (Vr)
2006 Collective “Artexpone 2006” - Castelfranco Veneto (Tv)
2007 Collective Sale dell'Arsenale Gruppo Nardi - Verona
2007 Collective “Italian Art Present” - Castelfranco Veneto (Tv)
2011 Collective “Contaminazioni” - Chiostro dei Glicini Milano
2013 Arte Fiera – Piacenza
2013 Arte Fiera – Carrara
2014 Collective - Loggia Barbaro Torre del Capitanio - Verona
2015 Collective – Al Torrione di Legnago - Verona
2015 Collective PRESEZZO (BERGAMO) - Palazzo Furietti Carrara “ Alimentiamo la cultura ” curated by Associazioni Culturali Agazzi and Promoisola.
2016 Collective – Al Torrione di Legnago - Verona
2017 “Water as Vital Impulse” - Invitational Show – (Bergamo)
2017 “Woman, Freedom to be” - Collective – Selected Artists – Sala Birolli - Verona
2017 Collective – Al Torrione di Legnago - Verona
2017 Painting Review – Invitational – Agna (Pd)
2017 Collective – Al Torrione di Legnago – Verona
2017 Bipersonal – Connections...Between Dream, Sign and Symbol – Torrione di Legnago – Verona
2017 Collective – Glints of Art for Telethon - Pescheria Nuova - Rovigo
2017 Collective – Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea in Veneto – Curated by Prof. Giammarco Puntelli - Villa Badoer – Fratta Polesine (Ro)
2018 Collective – Biennale Lake Como – Curated by Prof. Giammarco Puntelli – Palazzo Gallio – Gravedona (Co)
2018 Collective – The Choices of Puntelli – Curated by Prof. Giammarco Puntelli – Gubbio, Anghiari, Carrara, Tivoli
2018 Solo show – Technological Contamination – Torrione di Legnago – Verona
2019 Collective – Infinity Academy 2019 – Curated by Prof. Giammarco Puntelli – Palazzo Ducale – Sabbioneta (Mn)
2019 Arte Padova – Galleria Artproject
2020 Collective – Infinity Academy 2020 – Curated by Prof. Giammarco Puntelli – Chiesa di San Francesco – Ventimiglia (Im)

Television Exhibitions:

June 2007 Arte & Arte Gallery - Italia channel
July 2007 Arte & Arte Gallery - Italia Channel
October 2007 Galleria Greco Arte - Italia Channel
November 2007 Galleria Greco Arte - Italia Channel
November 2007 Galleria New Dimensione Arte - TV7 Lombardia
December 2007 Galleria New Dimensione Arte - TV7 Lombardia
January 2008 Galleria New Dimensione Arte - TV7 Lombardia

2009 Galleria New Dimensione Arte - SKY - terrestrial TV7 Lombardia - Lodi Crema TV - SolRegina - Telecity
2010 Galleria New Dimensione Arte - SKY - terrestrial TV7 Lombardia - Lodi Crema TV - SolRegina - Telecity
2011 Galleria New Dimensione Arte - SKY - terrestrial TV7 Lombardia - Lodi Crema TV - SolRegina - Telecity
2012 Galleria New Dimensione Arte - SKY - terrestrial TV7 Lombardia - Lodi Crema TV - SolRegina - Telecity

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