Gianfranco Zenerato - ABSTRACT MOUSE

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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 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 awards and recognitions
An artistic path recognized by institutions, critics and cultural organizations for 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 criticism
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 always new reading.

✓ Works 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 mere decoration
Each work arises from a research journey 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 conceived not only to be admired today, but to maintain its artistic, cultural and collecting value over time.

"ABSTRACT MOUSE" establishes itself as a visual reflection on the disintegration of form and its technological reflection. The mouse, icon of digital subjectivity, dissolves into violent, almost explosive color fragments, which seem to hint at a collision between instinct and interface.
The work, in its material dynamism and in the fragmentation of the line, investigates the boundary between human gesture and mechanical input, evoking a poetics of post-digital disorientation.

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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 critical remarks from well-known sector experts:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that stream of 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 humanity's defeat can also represent the ante chamber of a secular redemption. It is a vision rich in symbolic meanings, of a painter of the modern school, who with talent reconciles 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 interrupts the suspended atmosphere of a gray world, the contemporary one, which diverts us from the dream. (Paolo Levi)

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

Gianfranco Zenerato develops narrative signs that reveal, step by step, the infinite possibilities of a fertile imaginary, organized according to ordered sequences of his mental elaborations. His fantastical 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 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 reality built by the mind of a visionary. His works have a strong scenic component, and those who scrutinize these messages are left with deciphering what meaning the author attributed to them. Indeed he plays with symbols and allusions and enjoys confusing the 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 capacity into what is a depiction of anticipation, where modernity meets a time that no longer exists to make us meet again the feelings... (Giammarco Puntelli)

The author focuses on overlapping and intersecting genres, on a search that is allusive and metaphorically 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 meta-narrative paradigm. The painter is compelled to discover a new visual universe, to explore the limits of traditional iconography to show how painting today — amid much noise — is still an original discipline. The artist's creativity then reaffirm, thanks also to the striking chromies, how the approach to the genre still has citizenship in 21st-century painting.

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 diverse experiments has over the years placed his vision in a present that “looks” to the past as an ideal but now lost world, and a future full of artificial and artful contaminations. It is a warning and admonition that emanates from the elements on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The “drum kit” 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 female element, located on the temporal plane of the present, represents the archetype of mother-Earth placed in the in-between of past and future.
Gianfranco, like an Odyssey, travels in this temporal dimension, searching for 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 the face of the complexity of a world he created, the technological one, that is slipping from his hands and thus feels the need to return to where he started. Thus the cyclicality returns, where travel is this eternal call 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 undertaken by Gianfranco Zenerato there is this circular temporal reference, this departure and then return. When looking to the future, all that remains is to turn to the past to not lose our roots, not to be dehumanized by the technological and post-technological world.
Each journey puts reason and emotions on the same level, 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 female gaze, but also a danger because it is almost a loss of identity. When departing you 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 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 nucleus of contraction is the direction from which one comes, and in Zenerato’s works one has this sense of provenance from one place and direction toward another. In the center the female figure as a point of reference: it is the artist’s conscience, the heart of going, with its rhythms, noises, times, difficulties, discoveries and emotions.
The future time 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 that 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 sometimes become almost absent and overwhelmed by technological elements.
Thus it becomes essential to protect yourself from this future, which advances dangerous and almost uncontrollable, 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 ourselves reflected in a mirror. Departing with him will mean temporarily darkening those mirrors in the wait to discover a different image of ourselves. We may find, perhaps, our essence, we will 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 destiny, a common identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classical pastiche with a language of figurative pre-abstract, on the background of his inner historicizing cosmos, spans the movable cursor of his developing consciousness, up to the extreme urgencies of the present, subduing his learned technique to the energy of dream, sign, symbol and above all the color, rich in brightness and timbral purity, to interact with the present even technologically. His modernity is genuinely psychological and expressive in the intensity of his expressive charge of variables of postmodern (late 20th century) transavant-garde, with caravaggesque overlays ... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt ...). Zenerato has creative potentials of wide historical scope, knowing how to poetically combine them, assembling, vibrating the lyre of the soul’s poetry on the coordinates of art history in universal values, and in scanning on the cursor of his infinite imaginative evolution, through the hiperrealism of his visionary dream, a window opened added to reason, dialoguing with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting his research: figuration reaches 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.
(Gothe)

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 phrase 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 also Giorgio Morandi said, “There is almost nothing new in the world,” and therefore to be original one should paint taking into account social, technological and scientific evolutions.

It’s said that 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 has granted only to a few elect who, able to see 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 we must certainly count Maestro Zenerato, a talented artist like few, who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy a painting style that, though reminiscent of past Masters, demonstrates that the artist has learned from their lessons and has stolen 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 white crow in the national artistic panorama.
Sprouts of flowers and ripe, lush fruit, laid on high walls of marble worn by the years and often stained by amorous drawings of two young lovers, interweave with objects of modern daily life, like a CD-ROM, a mouse, a spatula, which become a linking ring between past, present and future; the surrounding landscape, almost always captured at evening, when the green ray greets the sun and welcomes the moon, emerges with even greater force what 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 warm 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 filtering ugliness and negativity 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...

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