Gianfranco Gobbini was born in 1953 in Città della Pieve, the birthplace of Perugino – Italy. He followed the path of painting as a self-taught artist, demonstrating from the age of thirteen an innate artistic inclination toward drawing and color. Over time, he developed abstract painting that stems from his deep observation of nature. He gradually abandoned landscape subjects to focus on the value of pure color, transcending nature through the essence of its contents and abandoning the use of representation. Color speaks to us. It tells of distant worlds, lost in the vastness of space and time. Color is life, richness, expressiveness. Color is the art of Gianfranco Gobbini, an abstract painter who builds the architecture of his paintings through complex chromatic layers of color. After many years of experimentation, he has created a particular paste that is used in all the reliefs of his works. Gobbini also uses saffron in a series of his works, as an homage to Città della Pieve’s tradition of saffron that is rooted in the past.
Gianfranco Gobbini has received many prestigious Certificates, Awards and Prizes and has participated in many solo exhibitions abroad.
Prepared Angela Kosta Academic, journalist, writer, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, translator
