Gianfranco Asveri

Gianfranco Asveri is an Italian painter, born in 1948 in Fiorenzuola d'Arda in the province of Piacenza.

After a difficult childhood and adolescence, and without any formal art training, Asveri began painting in 1969 as a self-taught artist. He lives and works in the hills near Piacenza with his dogs, which deeply inspire his drawings, paintings and poems.

His early work employed a traditional figurative language. In the 1980s his style evolved into an instinctive, emotional approach rich in colour and matter, close to Art Brut expressionism — powerful, primitive gestures sitting alongside subtler observations drawn from reality.

Asveri is widely collected in Italy and abroad; Il Sole 24 Ore has ranked him among the top ten Italian artists in the market, and he has held numerous solo exhibitions internationally.