Gianfranco Asveri

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.