Gianfranco Zenerato - METAPHYSICAL MOUSE

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Among the most appreciated contemporary artists and the 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 prizes and recognitions
An artistic path honored 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 critics
His artistic research has been analyzed and presented by authoritative critics and historians of art, 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 ever-new reading.

✓ Works produced with high technical quality
Great attention to detail, compositional balance and chromatic intensity make each piece a historically and collectorially impactful work.

✓ Not just a simple 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

To acquire 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 conceived not only to be admired today, but to maintain its artistic, cultural and collector value over time.

Buying Metaphysical Mouse means collecting a work capable of telling one of the great epochal changes of our civilization. It is not only a painting with a strong visual impact: it is a manifesto on the future of identity, value and the relation between man and technology. The works that manage to transform the present into a symbol are the ones destined to endure.

Unique piece 100% HAND-PAINTED
International archival certificate - Certificate of authenticity signed by the author - Folder containing the artist's professional path - Acrylic, phosphorescent pigments and quartz sand on panel - total dimensions including frame 55.5x45.5x3.5 cm - 2026
Ready to hang - Exquisite wooden frame handcrafted (as in the photo)
(Modern icons series)

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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 recognitions for the quality of his works. With over 500 awards to his name, his creations enrich notable 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 of the numerous reviews by well-known experts in the art sector:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that line of artists of the seventies, stern messengers to Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato is a bearer of a poignant warning, where the defeat of man can also represent the antechamber to secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, of a painter of a modern school who skillfully reconciles research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

One notices in this emblematic image an invitation to reflect 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 distracts us from the dream. (Paolo Levi)

In this unsettling yet explicit visual message, the dialogue between chromatic essentialism and the harmony of shapes testifies to the expressive tension and the mastery of a wise artist. The interesting and novel blend of flowers, fruits and contemporary technological objects is notable. (Stefania Bison)

Gianfranco Zenerato develops signic 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 confuse critical judgment in defining him as a Surrealist. This is not correct, as he does not propose an absurd and unreal imaginary, but rather a reality familiar to us, with a communicative and highly symbolic purpose. (Sandro Serradifalco)

This Gianfranco Zenerato painting is technically well-constructed, finely and richly articulated, and proposes the reality built by the mind of a visionary. His works have a strong scenic component and it remains to decipher what meaning the author attributed to them. He indeed plays with symbols and references 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 ability into a depiction of anticipation, where modernity meets a time that is no longer there to make us rediscover feelings... (Giammarco Puntelli)

The author focuses on overlapping and intersecting genres, on an allusive and metaphorical research incisive in 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 must discover a new visual universe, explore the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amid much noise — is still an original discipline. The artist's creativity then reaffirms — also thanks to the dazzling chromatisms — how the approach tied to the genre still has the right to citizenship in 21st-century painting.

Gianfranco Zenerato's painting leads us to a vision of reality operated on three levels. 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 world, but now lost, and to a future full of artificial and artificial contaminations.
It is a warning and an alert the message that emerges from the elements placed on the canvas surrounding his overall view. The “drum” that we find as a fixed element tells us “attention,” time is about to run out, and the strong call 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 bond with the past, with a world in which nature was predominant.
The feminine element, placed on the temporal plane of the present, represents the archetype of the mother-Earth set in the middle ground between the past and the 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. Driven 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, that is slipping from his hands and he therefore feels the need to return from where he started. Thus the cyclicity returns, in which the journey is this eternal call to life and death. We must return to the starting point to rediscover ourselves 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 circular temporal reference, this departure and then return. When looking to the future, we have no choice but to turn our gaze to the past in order not to lose our roots, not to let ourselves be dehumanized by the technological and post-technological world.
Each journey places rationality and emotions on the same plane, raises 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. When departing, one must face 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 going, 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 one place and heading toward another. At the center 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 temporal plane representing arrival is, in some works, dehumanized, and the female 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 the loss of ties with the past and even the elements of still life become, in some cases, almost absent and overwhelmed by those of the technological world.
Then it becomes essential to protect oneself from this future, which advances dangerously and almost uncontrollably, and take refuge in something known 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 temporarily obscure 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 common destiny, a common identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classical past-centrism with a language of pre-abstract figurative, on the background of his inner historicizing cosmos, spans the movable cursor of his developing consciousness, up to the extreme urgencies of the present, subjugating his learned technique to the energy of dream, sign, symbol and above all the color, rich in clarity and timbral purity, to interact with the present, also technological. His modernity is genuinely psychological and expressive of his expressive charge of transavant-garde conceptual history from the late twentieth century onwards... with Caravaggesque perspectival overlaps ... and modern post-Renaissance-inspired (Rembrandt ...) psychology. Zenerato has creative potential of wide historical range, poetically combining them, assembling, making the strings 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 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 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 present what they have to say in a way that seems it has never been said before.
(Gœthe)

It is necessary to start from Goethe’s incisive sentence to speak of the rich and innovative painting of the artist Gianfranco Zenerato, and this because through that simple sentence a great truth is told, that in painting everything has already been done and today the artist who seeks to conquer his own individuality, without being influenced by currents and by the Masters of the past, must overcome enormous obstacles because, as Giorgio Morandi also argued, “Again in the world there is nothing or very little,” 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 thus has the right to be moved in the presence of a masterpiece, but painting and creating is a gift that God has granted only to 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 grayness of the world around us.
Among these fortunate ones one must surely include Master Zenerato, a talented artist like few, who makes minuteness, rigor and fantasy a painting style that, though it recalls past Masters, proves that the artist has mined 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, which makes him a rare bird in the national artistic landscape.
Floral and ripe fruit canopies, laid on high marble walls worn by time and often smeared with the 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 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 more vigor what Zenerato banishes on the marble tablets in the foreground, where a color ever more 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 ugliness and negativities that our world carries with it.
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 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