Giovanni Confortini was born in Brescia in 1960.
A self-taught artist, he has cultivated his passion for painting since 1980, preferring the trompe-l'oeil technique.
Experimenting with multiple techniques and materials, he later specialized in the art of Hyperrealism, which fascinated him so much that he became a master of it due to the pictorial precision of the subject's details.
1995 marked the beginning of his professional career.
In fact, by opening a personal gallery in the center of Brescia, he decided to dedicate himself entirely to painting.
In 2005, he made a final decision: to abandon everything and move to Linosa, an island that, along with Lampedusa, is one of Italy's southernmost islands, the Pelagie Islands. Here, he lived an open-air experience, far from all the comforts and communication that would have affected his desire for freedom and his desire to paint Mediterranean subjects. He remained there for 11 long years, during which he became a true islander, well-liked by the locals, staging his solo exhibition every summer and showing off the works he produced in nine months of extreme solitude.
In 2016, the Linosa chapter ended and, for personal reasons, he returned to his origins: Visano (BS), where he still lives and works today.
In his loft-atelier-workshop, visitors can admire the paintings of the stunning orchids from the 2017 "Flowers" theme, the superheroes painted in 2019, the big cats from the 2021 "Animalier" theme, and finally, the new works from the "IN LIBRO VERITAS" theme presented in this catalog: a formidable and highly successful example of genius applied to the technique of hyperrealism. These pictorial expressions take visitors' breath away with the meticulous and fascinating craft of crafting each subject. Canvases of various sizes, in acrylic and oil, house dozens and dozens of books painted with painstaking patience, each with intricate titles and subjects meticulously detailed on the spines, eliciting sighs of admiration from the viewer.