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Gianfranco Zenerato (Professional Artist - Italy)

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

SYMPHONY 0631 - ATOMIC VISION
In this work the figure of the violinist represents harmony and human sensitivity, placed in sharp contrast to the cold and unsettling presence of the nuclear power plant in the background. It is the symbolic clash between music - expression of the soul - and the impersonal power of technology.
This tension makes the painting intense and deeply contemporary: an image that is not merely observed, but invites reflection on the relationship between humanity, progress, and fragility.
A work with strong conceptual and emotional impact, capable of standing out and catching the eye of any collector attentive to contemporary art.

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Unique work painted by hand - overall dimensions including frame 48x38x3 cm - acrylic and metallic pigments on canvas - 2026
Ready to hang - Beautiful baroque wooden frame, handcrafted

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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, 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 critiques by well-known industry experts:

Gianfranco Zenerato belongs to that tradition of 1970s artists, stern messengers to Western society. While Milanese Antonio Recalcati and Roman Franco Mulas expressed social anger, Zenerato carries a poignant warning, where human defeat may also signal the threshold of secular redemption. It is a vision dense with symbolic meanings, of a modern school painter who, with talent, reconciles research with experimentation. (Paolo Levi)

You notice from this emblematic image a kind of invitation to meditate on the beauty of still life, a flower and a young woman. The classical stillness interrupts the suspended atmosphere of a gray world, the contemporary one, which disorients us from dream. (Paolo Levi)

In this unsettling 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 new 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 orderly sequences of his mental elaborations. His fantastical constructions could thus confuse critical judgment in defining him as a surrealist. That is not correct, as he does not propose an absurd or unreal imagination, but rather 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 constructed by the mind of a visionary. His works have a strong scenographic component, and those who scrutinize these messages are left to decipher what meaning the author attributed to them. He plays with symbols and allusions and enjoys confusing interpretative 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 depiction of anticipation, where modernity meets a time that no longer exists to allow us to reconnect with feelings... (Giammarco Puntelli)

The author relies on overlay and intersection of genres, on a persuasive and metaphorical research into subjects and colors. With a flashing intuition he unifies past (still life), present (the female image), and future (symbolism, cryptic writing ...) so that the work becomes an artistic and literary paradigm and metanarrative. He presses the painter to discover a new visual universe, to probe the limits of traditional iconography to demonstrate how painting today — amid much noise — remains an original discipline. The artist’s creativity is reaffirmed, even thanks to the dazzling chroma, that the approach tied to a genre still has a rightful place in 21st-century painting.

Zenerato’s painting guides us to a vision of reality on three levels. It is a journey through time the artist invites us to take, who through various experiments has led his vision to place itself in a present that looks to the past as an ideal but lost world, and to a future full of artificial and feigned contaminations.
It is a warning and a notice that emerges from the elements on the canvas surrounding his overall vision. The fixed “drum kit” element tells us “pay attention,” time is running out, and the strong call of natural elements 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 ties with the past, with a world where nature predominated.
The female element, positioned on the present temporal plane, represents the archetype of Mother-Earth placed in the middle ground between past and future.
Gianfranco, like 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 before the complexity of a world he created, the technological one, which is slipping from his hands and he feels the need to return to where he started. Thus the cyclic return, 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 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 Gianfranco Zenerato undertakes there is this circular temporal reference, this departure and return. When looking to the future, we have no choice but to turn our gaze to the past to not lose our roots, to not let ourselves be dehumanized by the techno-post-technological world.
Every journey places rationality and emotion on the same level, awakens doubts and fears, daily 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 confront separation from the “old self,” composed of habits, roles and certainties. Departing is freedom, and even if this is limited because we face the unknown, it manages to bring order to the past. The moving perspective becomes centrifugal and centripetal, the expansion flow is the direction we are going, while the contraction center is the direction from which we come, and in Zenerato’s works you feel this sense of origin from one place and direction toward another. In the center the female figure as a reference point: it is the artist’s consciousness, the heart of going, with its rhythms, noises, times, difficulties, discoveries and emotions.
The future timeline representing arrival is, in some works, dehumanized, and the female figure is almost crumbled because the artist himself does not identify with such placement: it is as if the loss of identity were a disconsolate resignation to the loss of ties with the past, and even the elements of still lifes become, in some cases, almost absent and overshadowed by technological elements.
So it becomes essential to protect ourselves from this dangerous and almost uncontrollable future, and seek 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 our own reflection 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 perspectives, ours and others. We may lose ourselves and then find ourselves again, realizing a common nature, destiny, and identity. (Gaetana Foletto)

The artist, starting from classic pastism with a language of pre-abstraction figurative, in the background of his inner historicizing cosmos widens the moving cursor of his developing consciousness, up to the extreme emergences of the present, subduing his learned technique to the energy of dream, sign, symbol and especially the color, rich in clarity and tonal purity, to interact with the present even in the technological sense. His modernity is genuinely psychological and an intensive expression of his expressive charge of late 20th-century transavant-garde citational style ... with Caravaggesque perspective overlays ... and modern psychology of post-Renaissance extraction (Rembrandt ...). Zenerato has broad creative potentials historically, and he blends them poetically, assembling, making the strings of the soul’s poetry vibrate on the coordinates of art history in universal values, and in a scan of his infinite imaginative evolution, through the hyperrealism of his visionary dream, a window opened added to reason, dialoguing with the present. (Prof. Alfredo Pasolino)

Very interesting his research: figurative reaches scenographic effects in a space in which 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 as if 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 Gianfranco Zenerato, and this because through that simple phrase a great truth is told: 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 asserted, “There is nothing or very little new under the sun,” and therefore to be original one must paint considering social, technological and scientific evolutions.

It is said that art is for everyone but not for everyone, so everyone has the right to be moved by a masterpiece, but painting and creating is a gift God has granted only to a few elect who, capable of seeing what others often do not even perceive, manage to transform the emotions that arise from small things, from a gesture, a caress, a glance, into vibrant tones that color the greyness of the world around us.
Among these lucky ones one must surely count Master Zenerato, a gifted artist who makes meticulousness, rigor, and fantasy a painting style that, although recalling past Masters, shows that the artist has learned from their lessons, stealing to the greats an impeccable technique, presenting a uniqueness and a visible individuality in that touch of elegant modernity present in every single creation, making him a rare bird in the national artistic landscape.
Baskets of flowers and ripe, lush fruit, laid on high marble walls worn by the years and often smudged with amorous drawings of two young lovers, intertwine with objects of modern daily life, such as a CD-ROM, a computer mouse, a spatula, which become a link between past, present and future; the surrounding landscape, usually captured at dusk when the green ray greets the sun and welcomes the moon, emerges even more strongly what Zenerato banishes on the marble slabs in the foreground, where a color increasingly vivid stands out ranging from red, to yellow, to green, and 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 painterly, with which he represents what he feels by filtering ugliness and negativity that our world carries.

People who 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