Gianfranco Zenerato - METAPHYSICAL MOUSE

OPPORTURNITIES FOR COLLECTORS AND ART INVESTORS

Among the most appreciated contemporary artists and the fastest growing on Catawiki, Gianfranco Zenerato has already won the trust of over 180 international collectors.

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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 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 industry professionals.

✓ A unique and immediately recognizable style
Zenerato's works combine figurative tradition, symbolism and contemporary elements. Each painting tells a story and invites the viewer to a personal and ever-new reading.

✓ 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 a mere decoration
Each work arises from a research journey 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 obtaining an original piece created by an artist with a long documented career, hundreds of recognitions and a consolidated presence in international collections.

A work meant not only to be admired today, but to maintain its artistic, cultural and collecting value over time.

Buying Metaphysical Mouse means collecting a work capable of telling one of the great epochal passages of our civilization. It’s not just a painting with strong visual impact: it is a manifesto on the future of identity, value, and the relationship between man and technology. Works that transform the present into symbol are the ones destined to endure.

Unique piece 100% HAND-PAINTED
International archival certificate - Authenticity certificate signed by the author - File containing the artist's professional trajectory - Acrylic, phosphorescent pigments and quartz sand on panel - overall dimensions including the frame 55.5x45.5x3.5 cm - 2026
Ready to hang - Beautiful custom-made wooden frame (as in photo)
(Modern icons series)

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GIANFRANCO ZENERATO (Professional Artist - Italy)

Active since 1990, he has undertaken 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 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.

Currently, he collaborates with the well-known art critic, Prof. Giammarco Puntelli.

Some of the numerous reviews by well-known experts in the art sector:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that stream of 1970s artists, stern messengers to Western society. While the Milanese Antonio Recalcati and the Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato instead carries a poignant warning, where the defeat of man may also represent the antechamber of a lay redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, a painter of a modern school who with talent manages to reconcile research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

One notices from 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 breaks the suspended atmosphere of a gray world, the contemporary one, which distracts us from the dream. (Paolo Levi)

In this disturbing yet explicit visual message, the dialogue between chromatic essentiality and the harmony of forms testifies to expressive tension and the mastery of a skilled artist. Interesting and original the mixture of flowers, fruits and contemporary technological objects. (Stefania Bison)

Gianfranco Zenerato develops sign-formed narratives that reveal, step by step, the infinite possibilities of a fertile imaginary, organized according to ordered sequences of his mental elaborations. His imaginative constructions could therefore 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, paints a reality familiar to us, with a purely 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 scenic component, and those who scrutinize these messages are left to decipher what meaning the author attributed to them. He indeed plays with symbols and allusions and enjoys 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 skill into a depiction of waiting, where modernity meets a time that no longer exists to make us re-encounter feelings... (Giammarco Puntelli)

The author relies on the overlay and intersection of genres, on an allusive and metaphorical research sharp in subjects and colors. With a dazzling intuition, he unifies the past (still life), present (the female image) and future (symbolism, cryptic writing...) so that the work becomes an artistic and also literary and metanarrative paradigm. The painter is pushed 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 reinforces — also thanks to the striking chromatics — how the approach tied to the genre still has 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, over the years, placed his vision in a present that