(born Castelmassa, Rovigo in 1930) “Superficie Bianca”, 1988, on the reverse titled, signed Enrico Castellani, acrylic on shaped canvas, 110 x 80 cm, in plexiglas box(PP)

Photo certificate issued by the Archivio Castellani, Milan

The work has been registered by the Archivio Castellani, Milan under the archive no. 88–019.

The work will be included in the Catalogo Ragionato di Enrico Castellani des Archivio Castellani, Skira Editore, Milan currently being compiled.

Provenance:
Galleria Giuli, Lecco (label on the reverse);
Galleria Il Mappamondo, Milan (stamp on the reverse);
Poleschi Arte, Milan;
Private Collection, Italy

Castellani’s primary interest concerns the orderly repetition of a gesture. He wants to make concrete the exact awareness of an instant without leaving any possibility of metamorphosis. He considers the canvas as a living part of the wall, of an infinitely repeatable wall, an hypothetical wall that is continually hiding and revealing itself and all the points that enliven it. In the distance, the trackings, the varying tension of which shows the artist’s delicate balancing act, his presence. It is a presence that is continually verified through the gesture, a punctual arranger of a constructive rhythm.
(Exhibition catalogue, Galleria La Nuova Loggia, Bologna, 1967)