Gianfranco Zenerato - ABSTRACT MOUSE

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Among the most appreciated and fastest-growing contemporary artists 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 on the national and international art scene, built through decades of exhibitions.

✓ Over 500 awards and recognitions
An artistic journey 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.

✓ Esteemed 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 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 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 mere 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 gaining possession of 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.
"Abstract Mouse" is a visual manifesto of our time.
A work that transcends simple representation to become a reflection on the relationship between man and technology, between real and virtual. Its strength lies in the balance between abstraction and evocation, in a painterly gesture that makes the mouse — a symbol of the digital era — a contemporary icon.
Buying it means owning a fragment of this dialogue, a work that never stops questioning and captivating.

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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 acknowledgments 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 criticisms from well-known sector experts:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that current of 1970s artists, stern messengers to Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato conveys a poignant warning, where humanity’s defeat can also represent the threshold of secular redemption. This is a densely symbolic vision from a modern school painter, who skillfully reconciles research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

One notices in this emblematic image an 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 distracts us from dreams. (Paolo Levi)

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

Gianfranco Zenerato develops symbolic narratives that gradually reveal the infinite possibilities of a fertile imaginary, organized according to ordered sequences of his own mental elaborations. His fantastical constructions could confuse critical judgment in defining him as a surrealist. This is not accurate, as he does not offer an absurd or unreal imagination, but rather paints a reality familiar to us, with a communicative and highly symbolic purpose. (Sandro Serradifalco)

This Gianfranco Zenerato painting is technically well-structured, finely and richly articulated, proposing reality constructed by the mind of a visionary. His works have a strong scenic component, and those who probe 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 plot of a story camouflaged as unreality. (S. Russo)

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

The author focuses on the overlap and intersection of genres, on an allusive and metaphorical research incisive in subjects and colors. With a stunning insight 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 meta-narrative paradigm. He urges the painter to identify a new visual universe, to probe the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amid much noise — is still an original discipline. The artist’s creativity then reaffirms — thanks also to vibrant chromatic tones — how the approach tied to gender still has a place in 21st-century painting.

Gianfranco Zenerato’s painting leads us to a three-tier view of reality. It is a journey through time that the artist takes us on, who through various experiments has come to place his vision in a present that looks to the past as an ideal world, now lost, and to a future full of artificial and artificed contaminations. It is a warning and admonition that emerges from the elements placed on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The fixed “drumbeat” element tells us “attention,” time is about to expire, and the strong call of natural elements in the foreground, contaminated by objects from the technological world (the mouse, the CD, the alarm clock) emphasize how important it is not to sever the bond with the past, with a world where nature was predominant.
The female element, positioned on the present timeline, represents the archetype of Mother Earth placed 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 before the complexity of a world he created, the technological one, that is slipping from his grasp, and hence feels the need to return to where he started. Thus the cyclic return reveals the journey as an eternal summons to life and death. We must return to the starting point to rediscover ourselves, and the female figure becomes a symbol of the one 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 circular temporal reference, this departing and then returning. When looking to the future, we can only turn our gaze to the past to not lose our roots, to not let ourselves become dehumanized by the technological and post-technological world.
Each journey places rationality and emotions on the same plane, raises doubts and fears, and distorts the rhythms of daily life and gives them new meanings.
Moving 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 starting out, one must face separation from the “old self,” made of habits, roles, and certainties. Departing is freedom, and even if this is limited because one ventures into the unknown, it can still restore order to the past. The moving perspective becomes centrifugal and centripetal; the flow of expansion is the direction one is going, while the focus of contraction is the direction one comes from, and in Zenerato’s works one senses a sense of origin from one place and direction toward another. At the center is the female figure as a reference point: the artist’s consciousness, the heart of going, with its rhythms, noises, times, difficulties, discoveries and emotions.
The future timeline 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 saddened resignation to the loss of connection with the past, and even the elements of still life become, in some cases, almost absent and overshadowed by technological elements.
It becomes essential, therefore, to protect oneself from this advancing and almost uncontrollable future, and to retreat into 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 ourselves reflected in a mirror. Departing with him will temporarily darken those mirrors in anticipation of discovering a different image of ourselves. We may find our essence, realize the relativity of values and the perspectives of self and others. We may get lost and then rediscover ourselves, becoming aware of a common nature, a common destiny, a shared identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classic pastiche with a language of pre-abstract figurism, on the backdrop of his inner historicizing cosmos, expands the movable cursor of his developing consciousness, up to the extreme emergencies of the present, subjugating his learned technique to the energy of dream, sign, symbol and especially the color, rich in clarity and timbral purity, to interact with the present even technologically. His modernity is genuinely psychological and expresses the intensity of his expressive charge of late 20th-century transavant-garde cita­zionalist with Caravaggesque overlaid perspectives... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt...). Zenerato has vast historical creative potential, poetically combining it, assembling, making the strings of the soul’s poetry vibrate on the coordinates of art history into universal values, and in the cadence of his infinite imaginative evolution, through the hyperrealism of his visionary dream, a window opened together with reason, dialoguing with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting is his research: figuration achieves 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
curated 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 discuss Gianfranco Zenerato’s rich and innovative painting, and this is because through that simple sentence a great truth is told: that in painting, 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 also claimed, “There is little new in the world,” and therefore to be original one should paint considering social, technological, and scientific evolutions.

They say 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 bestowed only on a few chosen ones 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 grayness of the world around us.

Among these fortunate ones we must certainly count Master Zenerato, a gifted artist who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy a painting style that, though reminiscent of past masters, demonstrates that the artist has absorbed the lessons of beautiful painting, stealing flawless technique from the greats, presenting a uniqueness and individuality visible in the touch of elegant modernity present in every single creation, making him a rare white fly in the national artistic panorama.

Bunches of flowers and ripe, lush fruit, laid on tall marble walls worn by the years and often defiled by the amorous drawings of two young lovers, intertwine with objects of modern everyday life, such as a CD-ROM, a mouse, a spatula, which become the linking ring 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 even more strongly that which Zenerato bans on the marble boards in the foreground, where a color increasingly vivid ranges from red, to yellow, to green, and to all the warmest hues 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 painterly, with which he manages to represent what he feels by filtering the ugliness and negativities that our world carries with it.

They have written about him or judged his works:

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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