Gianfranco Zenerato - ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM

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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 WORK BY GIANFRANCO ZENERATO

✓ More than 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.

✓ Valued 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 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.

✓ 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 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 owning an original piece created by an artist with a long documented career, hundreds of accolades and a consolidated presence in international collections.

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Gianfranco Zenerato (Professional Artist - Italy)

• Active since 1990, with over 600 participations in National and International art events.
• Recognized for the high quality of the works, with over 500 awards received.
• Present in public and private collections in Italy, Europe, America and Asia.
• Has exhibited alongside masters such as Antonio Nunziante, Athos Faccincani, Alfonso Borghi, Giuseppe Menozzi, Giampaolo Talani, Saturno Buttò, etc.
• Reviewed by leading Italian critics.

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International Storage Certificate - Certificate of Authenticity - File containing the artist's professional journey - total dimensions including frame 33.5x33.5x6.5 cm - oil, acrylic, metallized pigments - 2026
Ready to be hung - Beautiful wooden frame included in the lot (as in the photo).

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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 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 renowned experts in the field of art:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that current of artists of the seventies, stern messengers to Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato, on the contrary, is a bearer of a poignant warning, where mankind's defeat can also represent the threshold of secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, of a painter from a modern school who with talent manages to reconcile research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

One perceives 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 interrupts the suspended atmosphere of a gray world, the contemporary one, which distracts us from dreams. (Paolo Levi)

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

Gianfranco Zenerato develops symbolic narratives that reveal, step by step, the infinite possibilities of a fertile imagination, organized according to ordered sequences of his own mental elaborations. His fanciful constructions could therefore confuse critical judgment in defining him as a surrealist. That is not correct, as he does not propose an imaginary absurd and unreal, but rather paints a reality familiar to us, with a purpose but highly symbolic: communicative. (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 scenographic component, and those who study these messages are left 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 weave of a story camouflaged as unreality. (S. Russo)

With Gianfranco Zenerato we have an excellent idea, transformed with great ability into a figurative representation of expectation, where modernity meets a time that no longer exists to make us rediscover feelings... (Giammarco Puntelli)

The author focuses on overlapping and intersecting genres, on an allusive and metaphorical research that is incisive in subjects and colors. With striking insight, he unifies past (still life), present (the female image) and future (symbolism, cryptic writing...) so that the work becomes an artistic paradigm but also literary and metanarrative. The painter is driven to discover a new visual universe, to explore the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amidst much noise — remains a genuine discipline. The artist's creativity thus reaffirms — also thanks to the vibrant chromatics — how the approach tied to the genre still has a rightful place 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 gradually placed his vision in a present that looks to the past as an ideal world, but long lost, and a future full of artificial and pretentious contaminations.
It is a warning and a notice that emerges from the elements on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The “drum” that we find as a fixed element is telling us “watch out,” time is running out, and the strong call of natural elements placed in the foreground, contaminated by objects from the technological world (the mouse, the CD or the alarm clock) emphasize how important it is not to sever the link with the past, with a world where nature was predominant.
The female element, placed on the temporal plane of the present, represents the archetype of Mother-Earth set 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 slips from his hands and he feels, therefore, 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 rediscover ourselves, and the female figure thus becomes a symbol of she 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 undertaken by Gianfranco Zenerato there is this circular temporal reference, this departure and return. When looking to the future, all that remains is to turn one’s gaze to the past to not lose our roots, not allow ourselves to 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 towards 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 you go towards 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 axis of contraction is the direction from which one comes, and in Zenerato’s works one gets this sense of coming from one place and going to another. At the center the female figure as a focal point: it is the artist’s consciousness, the heart of going, with its rhythms, noises, times, difficulties, discoveries and emotions.
The future temporal plane that represents arrival is, in some works, dehumanized, and the female figure is almost crumbled because the artist himself does not recognize himself in such a position: 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 life become, in some cases, almost absent and overwhelmed by those of the technological world.
It becomes fundamental, then, to protect oneself from this future, which advances in a dangerous and almost uncontrollable way, and to take 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 himself reflected 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 viewpoints, both our own and others. We may get lost and then find ourselves, realizing a common nature, a common destiny, a common identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classical pastism with a language of pre-abstract figurative, on the backdrop of his inner historicizing cosmos, extends the movable cursor of his developing consciousness, up to the extreme emergencies of the present, subduing 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 an intensive expression of his expressive charge of variables of postmodernist of the late 20th century onwards... with Caravaggesque overlapping perspectives... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt...). Zenerato has broad creative potential, Poeti cally combining them, assembling, making the harp 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, an open window added to reason, dialoguing with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting his research: figurative achieves scenic effects in a space where a symbolic frequency vibrates, entrusted from time to time to dream, myth, or daily reality, all harmonized by a splendid chromatic game.

The Artist of discipline and modernity
Edited by Francesco Cairone

The most original artists are not so because they promote what is new, but because they expose 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 the artist Gianfranco Zenerato, and this because through that simple sentence a great truth is told, namely that in painting almost everything has been done and today the artist who seeks to conquer his own individuality, without being influenced by currents and Masters of the past, must overcome enormous obstacles because as Giorgio Morandi also held, “There is little or 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 not to everyone; everyone has the right to be moved by a masterpiece, but painting and creating is a gift that God has granted only to a few chosen who, capable of seeing what others often do not even perceive, manage to transform the emotions that arise from small things, from a gesture, from a caress, from a gaze, into vibrant tones that color the drabness of the world around us. Among these lucky ones one must surely count Master Zenerato, a talented artist like few, who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy one painting style that, although recalling past Masters, proves that the artist has absorbed the lessons of beautiful painting, stealing a technique impeccable from the greats, presenting a uniqueness and an individuality visible in that touch of elegant modernity present in every single creation, making him a white crow in the national artistic panorama.

Sprays of flowers and ripe, lush fruit, lying on high marble walls worn by the years 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 a linking ring between past, present and future; the surrounding landscape, almost always captured at dusk when the green ray greets the sun and bids welcome to the moon, emerges even more strongly what Zenerato bans on the marble panels in the foreground, where a color grows ever more vivid ranging 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 initially poetic and then pictorial, with which he manages to represent what he feels by filtering ugliness and negative aspects that our world carries.

There are critics who have written about him or evaluated 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 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