Gianfranco Zenerato - ICON

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Among contemporary artists most appreciated 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

✓ 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 national and international art scenes, 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 form 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 reputable critics and art historians, including Paolo Levi, Giammarco Puntelli, Sandro Serradifalco, Giorgio Grasso and many 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.

✓ Works created with high technical quality
Great attention to detail, compositional balance and chromatic intensity make each work a piece with strong visual and collector appeal.

✓ Not just decorative
Each work originates 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 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 designed not only to be admired today, but to preserve its artistic, cultural and collectible value over time.

"ICON" is a visual reflection on the sacredness of technology. The everyday object, a mouse, is sublimated into a relic of digital thought, a center of chromatic energy that vibrates like an aura. The pictorial matter becomes the language of the information flow, translating the mechanical gesture into inner perception. The artist transforms functionality into a symbol, returning to the present a cult image: the icon of our connected time.
Owning ICON means guarding a fragment of the most authentic contemporaneity: a work that unites aesthetics, reflection and technological memory. A painting destined to become a testimony of our transition from the analog man to the digital man.

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Unique work 100% HAND-PAINTED on luxurious black velvet - total dimensions including frame 35x39x3 cm - acrylic, metallic colors on canvas - 2025
Ready to hang - Splendid carved wooden frame professionally prepared

Gianfranco Zenerato (Professional Artist - Italy)

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

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GIANFRANCO ZENERATO (Professional Artist - Italy)
Active since 1990, he has embarked on 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 important 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 critiques from well-known sector experts:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to the same current of artists of the seventies, stern messengers to Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and 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 a secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, of a painter of modern schooling, who with talent manages to reconcile research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

One notices receiving 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 the dream. (Paolo Levi)

In this inquietant yet explicit visual message, the dialogue between chromatic essentialism and 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 symbolic narratives 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 thus 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 purpose, however, 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 scenic component, and those who explore these messages are left to decipher what meaning the author gave them. He indeed plays with symbols and allusions and enjoys confusing interpretive coordinates of what could be the plot of a story camouflaged as unreality. (Salvatore Russo)

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

The author focuses on overlap and intersection of genres, on an allusive and incisive metaphorical search 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 and also literary and meta-narrative paradigm. The painter must explore a new visual universe, probe the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amid much noise — is still an original discipline. The artist's creativity thus reaffirms — also thanks to the vivid chromatic tones — how the approach tied to genre still has the right to 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 place his vision in a present that “looks” to the past as an ideal, but now lost, and a future full of artificial and false contaminations.
It is a warning and an alert that emerges from the elements placed on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The fixed “battery” element tells 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 bond with the past, with a world where nature was predominant.
The female element, positioned on the temporal plane of the present, represents the archetype of the Mother-Earth placed in the middle ground between past and future.
Gianfranco, like an Odysseus, travels in this temporal dimension, seeking 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, that is slipping from his grasp and therefore 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 find ourselves, and the female figure thus 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 this temporal circular reference exists, this departure and then return. When looking to the future, all that remains is to turn the gaze to the past to not lose our roots, not let ourselves be dehumanized by the technological and post-technological world.
Each journey places rationality and emotions on the same level, arouses doubts and fears, everyday times distort and take on different meanings.
Going 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 departing one must face separation from the “old self,” made of habits, roles and certainties. Departing is freedom anyway, and even if it is limited because one ventures into 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 heading, while the core of contraction is the direction from which one comes, and in Zenerato’s works one has this sense of coming from a place and heading toward another. At the center the female figure as a point of reference: it is the artist’s consciousness, the heart of going, with its rhythms, noises, times, difficulties, discoveries and emotions.
The future time plane representing the arrival is, in some works, dehumanized, and the female figure is almost crumbled because the artist himself does not recognize himself in such a placement: it is as if the loss of identity were a disconsolate resignation to the loss of connection with the past and even the elements of still lifes become, in some cases, almost absent and overwhelmed by technological ones.
It becomes essential, then, to protect oneself from this future, advancing perilously and almost un controllable, 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 momentarily darkening those mirrors while waiting to discover a different image of ourselves. We may find our essence, realize the relativity of values and of our own and others' points of view. 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 pastism with a language of pre-abstract figurativity, against 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 color, rich in clarity, and in timbral purity, to interact with the present even in technology. His modernity is genuinely psychological and an intensive expression of his expressive charge of variables of the postmodern transavant-garde citational from the late 20th century onward... with Caravaggesque perspective overlaps ... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt ...). Zenerato has broad creative potential, skillfully combining poetically, assembling, making the lyre 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 reaches scenographic 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 makes it seem like it has never been said before. (Goethe)

It is necessary to start from Goethe’s incisive phrase to speak of 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 everything has been done, and today the artist who seeks to conquer his own individuality, without being influenced by currents and the Masters of the past, must overcome enormous obstacles because as Giorgio Morandi also stated “There is little or nothing new under the sun,” and therefore to be original one should paint keeping in mind social, technological and scientific evolutions.

It is said that art is for everyone but not for everyone; everyone has the right to be moved by a masterpiece, but painting and creation is a gift that God has granted only to a few elect who, capable of seeing what others often do not perceive even, manage to transform the emotions that arise from small things, from a gesture, a caress, a look, into vibrant tones that color the greyness of the world around us.
Among these fortunate people one must certainly include Master Zenerato, a talented artist like few, who makes meticulousness, rigor and fantasy a painting style that, although reminiscent of past Masters, shows that the artist has learned from the lessons of fine 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 panorama.
Vase of flowers and ripe and lush fruit, laid on high marble walls worn by the years and often defaced by 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 connecting link between past, present and future; the surrounding landscape, almost always seen at dusk when the green ray greets the sun and welcomes the moon, emerges with even greater vigor what Zenerato bans on the marmoreal boards in the foreground, where a color increasingly vivid stands out ranging from red, to yellow, to green, and to all the warmest 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 can represent what he feels filtering the ugliness and negativities that our world carries.
They have written about him or judged his works: Paolo Levi, Paolo Rizzi, Giammarco Puntelli, Giorgio Grasso, Sergio Capellini, Pietro Gasperini, Francois Buisson, Ruggero 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