Asveri Larca di Noè

In *Asveri Larca di Noè*, Gianfranco revisits the enduring allegory of Noah’s Ark through a contemporary, formally inventive lens. Layered mark-making and a disciplined, architectonic composition suggest both vessel and sanctuary, while a nuanced palette—alternating density and luminosity—conjures the tension between catastrophe and renewal.

The artist’s handling of surface, where gestural passages meet controlled structure, foregrounds process as meaning: painting becomes an act of preservation. Drawing on Mediterranean visual memory and Judeo-Christian iconography, the work speaks to modern conditions of migration, ecological precarity, and collective survival.

This compelling contemporary painting positions myth as a living language—urgent, resonant, and unmistakably of the present.

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…