Gianfranco Asveri
Painting works
Gianfranco Asveri is a representative of a highly instinctive and emotional painting style. He approaches the surface with a powerful, primitive gesture that nevertheless allows other, subtler forms of expression to emerge.
Deeply inspired by life and by his observation of reality, Asveri’s art is closely connected to the animals he rescues, cares for, lives with and loves above all else. These same animals become the subjects of his drawings, paintings and poetry.
Welcome to Asveri’s magical world.
Biography
Born in Fiorenzuola d'Arda in 1948, Asveri lives and works in Gasperini in the hills of Piacenza. He did not attend art school or pursue any other kind of artistic studies. In 1969, he began painting, finding in art a reason for living.
After an initial period in which he expressed himself through traditional figurative language, starting in the 1980s his painting evolved into a more instinctive and personal style, rich in colour and texture, close to the expressionism of Art Brut. The daily newspaper Il Sole 24Ore recently named him one of the ten leading artists on the Italian art market.
Critics such as Luca Beatrice, Paolo Blendinger, Beatrice Buscaroli, Luciano Caprile, Martina Corgnati, Maurizio Corgnati, Elda Fezzi, Stefano Fugazza, Flaminio Gualdoni, Elisabetta Longari, Lorenzo Kamel, Domenico Montalto, Nicoletta Pallini, Elena Pontiggia, Giovanni Quaglino, Alessandro Riva, Marco Rosci, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Giorgio Seveso, Claudio Vela and the poet Ferdinando Cogni have written about him.
Publications
GIANFRANCO ASVERI
Catalogo generale
Languages: Italian, English
Curated by Gianfranco Asveri and Paolo Bertuzzi.
Number of pages: 155 Size: cm 29 x 31 Price: 40.00 + € 10,00 shipping.
