Gianfranco Goberti (19 November 1939 – 22 January 2023) was an Italian painter.
Life and career
Goberti was born in
Ferrara on 19 November 1939. After studying Arts at the Institut
Dosso Dossi in Ferrara, Italy, and at the Academy of Art in
Bologna, he was teacher and Director of the Institut of Arts Dosso Dossi.
His first exhibition was held in 1959 with references to
Pablo Picasso and
Francis Bacon. His research dealt with
nuova figurazione and
Abstract Expressionism. The first optical-figurative period starts during the 1960s. In 1980, he was selected by the National Catalogue of Modern Art Bolaffi together with Paolini, Adami, Bulgarelli, Cassano and Paladino.
Goberti has held exhibitions at the International Art Expo of
Bilbao, Quadriennale d'Arte in Rome, Rassegna Premio S. Fedele (
Milan), Arte Fiera (
Bologna), Altissima (
Turin), Expo Arte (
Bari), ArteExpo (
Barcelona), and LineArt (
Ghent), "La Venere svelata – La
Venere di Urbino di
Tiziano" (
Brussels, Centre for Fine Arts, 10/10/2003-11/01/2004, Festival Internazionale EUROPALIA).
"Is the Goberti's art the element which should arouse new interest in our way of looking at and co-living with what is around us? Is maybe his technical ability? … The dominant aspect of the Goberti's art is the relationship between the Art and what it has been traditionally considered its subject, the Nature. ... The Art has always its specific language and a human substance even when it would camouflage in the Nature. This is the lesson, the revision of our mode of being in the world what Gianfranco Goberti proposes us."
Goberti died on 23 January 2023, at the age of 83.[1]
2009 – Le carpe sacre di Sanli Urfa, Galleria "del Carbone", Ferrara
2011 – Incontri d'Autore: #1, Galleria del Carbone, Ferrara; Il nodo del tempo, conversazione tra arte, filosofia e scienza. In: Notte dei ricercatori, September 23, 2011. A cura di: Davide Bassi, Marco Bertozzi, Gianfranco Goberti,
University of Ferrara.
2014 –
Palazzo Turchi Di Bagno, Sistema Museale di Ateneo of the University of Ferrara, Ferrara; Opere leggere, studio dell'artista, Ferrara
2003/2004 – LineArt (Gand), "La Venere svelata – La
Venere di Urbino di
Tiziano", Palais des Beaux-Arts, 10/10/2003-11/01/2004, Festival Internazionale EUROPALIA,
Brussels
2003 – Arte in Italia negli anni '70, Polo Umanistico, Erice (TP)
2007 – Nuovo spazio: Inaugurazione, MLB Home Gallery,
Ferrara
2008 – Sebastiano tra sacro e profano, Monica Benini Arte, Ferrara; Pinacoteca G. Cattabriga,
Bondeno (FE)
2012 – Ulisse Gallery, PERFHUMANCE: odori e viste attorno all’uomo,
Ugo Attardi, Gianfranco Goberti, Sidival Fila, Giorgio Galli, Rome; Omaggio a Michelangelo Antonioni dagli amici della Galleria del Carbone, Galleria del Carbone (Ferrara)
2013 – Angeli contemporanei, Galleria del Carbone (Ferrara); Künstler aus Ferrara, Italien, KREIS Galerie (Nürnberg)
2014 – Nutrire la Pace, energia della vita, Sotheby's; Enrico Berlinguer e lo sguardo degli artisti, Camera dei Deputati, Roma; Galleria Civica of
Andalo (
Trento); Scandito ad Arte, Galleria del Carbone (Ferrara)
2015 – Ombre della memoria con Flavia Franceschini, Ulisse Gallery,
Roma; Acqua, farina, lievito... pane, Galleria Il Ponte,
Pieve di Cento
Gianfranco Goberti (19 November 1939 – 22 January 2023) was an Italian painter.
Life and career
Goberti was born in
Ferrara on 19 November 1939. After studying Arts at the Institut
Dosso Dossi in Ferrara, Italy, and at the Academy of Art in
Bologna, he was teacher and Director of the Institut of Arts Dosso Dossi.
His first exhibition was held in 1959 with references to
Pablo Picasso and
Francis Bacon. His research dealt with
nuova figurazione and
Abstract Expressionism. The first optical-figurative period starts during the 1960s. In 1980, he was selected by the National Catalogue of Modern Art Bolaffi together with Paolini, Adami, Bulgarelli, Cassano and Paladino.
Goberti has held exhibitions at the International Art Expo of
Bilbao, Quadriennale d'Arte in Rome, Rassegna Premio S. Fedele (
Milan), Arte Fiera (
Bologna), Altissima (
Turin), Expo Arte (
Bari), ArteExpo (
Barcelona), and LineArt (
Ghent), "La Venere svelata – La
Venere di Urbino di
Tiziano" (
Brussels, Centre for Fine Arts, 10/10/2003-11/01/2004, Festival Internazionale EUROPALIA).
"Is the Goberti's art the element which should arouse new interest in our way of looking at and co-living with what is around us? Is maybe his technical ability? … The dominant aspect of the Goberti's art is the relationship between the Art and what it has been traditionally considered its subject, the Nature. ... The Art has always its specific language and a human substance even when it would camouflage in the Nature. This is the lesson, the revision of our mode of being in the world what Gianfranco Goberti proposes us."
Goberti died on 23 January 2023, at the age of 83.[1]
2009 – Le carpe sacre di Sanli Urfa, Galleria "del Carbone", Ferrara
2011 – Incontri d'Autore: #1, Galleria del Carbone, Ferrara; Il nodo del tempo, conversazione tra arte, filosofia e scienza. In: Notte dei ricercatori, September 23, 2011. A cura di: Davide Bassi, Marco Bertozzi, Gianfranco Goberti,
University of Ferrara.
2014 –
Palazzo Turchi Di Bagno, Sistema Museale di Ateneo of the University of Ferrara, Ferrara; Opere leggere, studio dell'artista, Ferrara
2003/2004 – LineArt (Gand), "La Venere svelata – La
Venere di Urbino di
Tiziano", Palais des Beaux-Arts, 10/10/2003-11/01/2004, Festival Internazionale EUROPALIA,
Brussels
2003 – Arte in Italia negli anni '70, Polo Umanistico, Erice (TP)
2007 – Nuovo spazio: Inaugurazione, MLB Home Gallery,
Ferrara
2008 – Sebastiano tra sacro e profano, Monica Benini Arte, Ferrara; Pinacoteca G. Cattabriga,
Bondeno (FE)
2012 – Ulisse Gallery, PERFHUMANCE: odori e viste attorno all’uomo,
Ugo Attardi, Gianfranco Goberti, Sidival Fila, Giorgio Galli, Rome; Omaggio a Michelangelo Antonioni dagli amici della Galleria del Carbone, Galleria del Carbone (Ferrara)
2013 – Angeli contemporanei, Galleria del Carbone (Ferrara); Künstler aus Ferrara, Italien, KREIS Galerie (Nürnberg)
2014 – Nutrire la Pace, energia della vita, Sotheby's; Enrico Berlinguer e lo sguardo degli artisti, Camera dei Deputati, Roma; Galleria Civica of
Andalo (
Trento); Scandito ad Arte, Galleria del Carbone (Ferrara)
2015 – Ombre della memoria con Flavia Franceschini, Ulisse Gallery,
Roma; Acqua, farina, lievito... pane, Galleria Il Ponte,
Pieve di Cento