Gianfranco Asveri

Born in Fiorenzuola d'Arda in 1948, Asveri lives and works at Gasperini in the Piacenza hills. He did not attend academies or follow artistic studies of any other kind. In 1969 he began painting, finding in art a reason for living. After an initial period in which he expressed himself in a traditional figurative language, from the 1980s onwards his painting moved towards a more instinctive and personal gesture, rich in colour and matter, close to the expressionism of Art Brut. The newspaper Il Sole 24Ore recently listed him as one of the top ten 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.