Asveri Favole in viaggio lo scuola b

Gianfranco’s *Asveri Favole in viaggio lo scuola b* evokes the itinerant spirit of Italian storytelling, where folktale, childhood memory, and everyday ritual become sites of contemporary reflection. Working with a refined, image-led approach—suggestive of collage and drawing-based mark-making—Gianfranco layers fragmented motifs and lyrical passages of colour to create a narrative field that feels both intimate and communal.

The composition reads like a page in motion: characters and symbols drift, overlap, and reassemble, inviting viewers to “travel” through the work as through a fable. Culturally resonant, the piece bridges vernacular Italian iconography with a modern sensibility, positioning education, imagination, and journeying as enduring themes in contemporary European art.

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 s…