Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)
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Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)

Superficie bianca (White Surface)

Details
Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)
Superficie bianca (White Surface)
signed, titled and dated 'Enrico Castellani - Superficie bianca - 1991 -' (on the overlap)
acrylic on shaped canvas
31½ x 31½in. (80 x 80cm.)
Executed in 1991
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner circa 1995.
Literature
R. Wirz & F. Sardella, Enrico Castellani. Catalogo ragionato. Tomo secondo. Opere 1955-2005, vol. II, Milan 2012, no. 711 (illustrated, p. 512).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

This work is registered in the Archivio Enrico Castellani, Milan, under no. 91-007.


‘Space interests us and concerns us because it contains us. I use monochrome surfaces, as immaterial as possible and shaped to form double curves with repeated elements: a series of points in relief and points forming depressions, negative and positive poles, and a series of minimal operative interventions. (…) Reality, too, always has an obverse and a reverse that, by fitting together, deny each other in turn’ (E. Castellani, quoted in ‘Ambiente bianco. 1967’, in Lo spazio dell’immagine, Venice 1967, p. 78).

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