Gianfranco Asveri

Born in Fiorenzuola d’Arda in 1948, Asveri now lives and works in Gasperini in the hills surrounding Piacenza. He has no formal artistic education. Although he had never studied at an art school, in 1969 he started painting and thus discovered his life’s purpose. After an initial phase where he would express himself following a traditional figurative style, in the 1980’s his way of painting became rather instinctive and more personal, characterized by opulence of colour and texture and much resembling Art Brut expressionism. The Italian newspaper Sole24Ore recently listed him as one of the top artists present on the Italian art market. Numerous art critics have written about him: 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 Ferdinando Cogni, poet.