Gianfranco Zenerato - ICON

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Among contemporary artists most appreciated and 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

✓ More than 35 years of professional career
Active since 1990, Gianfranco Zenerato has gradually developed 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 the 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.

✓ Works of high technical quality
Great attention to detail, compositional balance and chromatic intensity make each work a piece with strong visual and collector 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 artist’s 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 recognitions and a consolidated presence in international collections.

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

Gianfranco Zenerato (Professional Artist - Italy)

• Active since 1990, with more than 600 participations in national and international art events.
• Recognized for the high quality of the works, with over 500 prizes.
• 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.
• Critically reviewed by leading Italian critics.

Buying today a work such as “ICON” means making a farsighted gesture, analogous to those who, in the ferment of the 1960s, recognized the disruptive strength of a new artistic vision, apparently incomprehensible at the time, but destined to redefine the parameters of contemporary art.
“ICON” is not just a painting: it is an aesthetic and conceptual manifesto that intercepts the present time and transcends it. The everyday object, the chromatic stratification, the material inlay that simulates the technological surface — all contribute to a language that not only dialogues with the history of art, but also reinvents it in another, reflective and perturbing dimension.
Whoever chooses today to engage in dialogue with this vision does not perform a simple act of collecting, but adheres to a deep intuition: that one recognizes in the artwork not a decorative object, but a carrier of meaning, a cultural investment capable of gaining relevance over time that challenges the linear logic of the market.
Just as it happened then, in those crucial years when art seemed to lose every reference and instead was building the foundations of the present, today some artists are tracing new horizons. “ICON” is one of those clear, strong, unmistakable signals. And to recognize them before they become obvious to all is the privilege of a few.

Unique piece 100% HAND-PAINTED
International archival certificate - Signature of authenticity signed by the author - File containing the artist’s professional journey - Acrylic, metallized pigments and phosphorescent varnishes on canvas - total dimensions including frame 25x35x6 cm - Glows in the dark - 2025
Ready to hang - Beautifully crafted wooden frame
(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 prizes 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 current of the seventies artists, stern messengers to Western society. While the Milanese Antonio Recalcati and the Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato is a bearer of a poignant warning, where the defeat of man can also represent the threshold of secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, of a painter from a modern school, who skillfully reconciles research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

One notices in this emblematic image a kind of invitation to meditate on the beauty of a still life, of a flower and of a young woman. The classicism of these silent images interrupts the suspended atmosphere of a gray, contemporary world that distracts us from the dream. (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 wise artist. Interesting and original is the mixture 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 imaginary world, organized according to ordered sequences of his own mental elaborations. His fanciful constructions could therefore confuse the critical judgment in defining him as a surrealist. This is not correct, because he does not propose an absurd and unreal imaginary, but on the contrary, paints a reality familiar to us, with a purpose that is communicative and highly symbolic. (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 scenographic component and those who examine these messages are left to decipher what meaning the author attributed to them. He indeed plays with symbols and references and enjoys confusing the interpretative 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 skill into what is a depiction of waiting, where modernity meets a time that no longer exists to make us meet again the feelings... (Giammarco Puntelli)

The author emphasizes overlap and intersection of genres, on a search that is allusive and metaphorical, incisive in subjects and colors. With a brilliant intuition he unifies past (still life), present (the feminine image) and future (symbolism, cryptic writing...) so that the work becomes an artistic but also literary and metanarrative paradigm. It presses the painter to identify a new visual universe, to probe the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amid so much noise — is still an original discipline. The artist’s creativity then reaffirmed — thanks also to the striking chromaticities — how genre-related approaches still have 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 come to place his vision in a present that “looks” to the past as an ideal world, but now lost, and 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 vision. The “drum” that we find as a fixed element is telling us “attention,” time is running 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 link 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 Mother-Earth set 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 in front of the complexity of a world he created, the technological one, which is slipping away from him, and thus he 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 rediscover ourselves and the feminine figure becomes thus 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 undertaken by Gianfranco Zenerato there is this temporal circular reference, this departure and then return. When looking to the future we can only turn our gaze to the past to not lose our roots, to not let ourselves be dehumanized by the technological and post-technological world.
Every journey puts rationality and emotions on the same level, raises doubts and fears, the times of everyday life distort and take on different meanings.
Going toward the future becomes a challenge, seen in the feminine gaze, but also a danger because it is almost a loss of identity. Starting out we must face separation from the “old self,” made of habits, roles and certainties. Departing is still freedom, and even if this is limited because it faces the unknown, it can still bring order to the past. The moving perspective becomes centrifugal and centripetal, the flow of expansion is the direction we are going, while the focus of contraction is the direction from which we come, and in Zenerato’s works you perceive this sense of coming from one place and moving toward another. At the center the feminine figure as a reference point: it is the artist’s conscience, 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 feminine figure is almost shattered because the artist himself does not recognize himself in that position: it is as if the loss of identity were a saddened resignation to the loss of ties with the past and even the elements of still lifes become, in some cases, almost absent and overwhelmed by technological elements.
It becomes fundamental, then, to protect oneself from this future, which advances perilously and almost uncontrollably, and to take refuge in something known and old 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 ourselves 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 points of view ours and others. We may get lost and then find ourselves again, realizing a common nature, a common fate, a common identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classical pastiche with a language of figurative pre-abstract, against the backdrop of his inner historicizing cosmos, slides the movable cursor of his developing consciousness, up to the extreme urgencies of the present, subordinating 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 even technological. His modernity is genuinely psychological and expressive in his vibrational charge of variables of the post-modernist, end-of-twentieth-century quotation movement ... with Caravaggesque overlapping ... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt ...). Zenerato has vast creative potential, poetically 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, a window opened added to reason. dialoging with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting his research: figurative art achieves scenic effects in a space where a symbolic frequency vibrates, entrusted from time to time to dream, myth, or everyday 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 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 sentence to talk about the rich and innovative painting of the artist Gianfranco Zenerato, and this is because through that simple sentence a great truth is told, namely 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 Masters of the past, must overcome enormous obstacles because as Giorgio Morandi also argued, “There is nothing or very little new under the sun,” and therefore to be original one should paint with awareness of 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 by 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, a caress, a gaze, into vibrant tones that color the greyness of the world around us.
Among these lucky ones we must surely count Master Zenerato, a talented artist like few, who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy one painting style that, though reminiscent of past Masters, shows that the artist has learned from the lessons of beautiful 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, making him a white crow in the national artistic scene.
Blooms of flowers and ripe lush fruit resting on high marble walls worn by the years and often stained 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 greater vigor what Zenerato banishes on the marble boards in the foreground, where an ever more vivid color stands out ranging from red to yellow to green and 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 the ugliness and the 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