Deep dreams
collezione Megalopoli, 1979
copriletto bianco matrimoniale trapuntato.
un lato è rivestito in seta pura colore naturale
l’altro con tessuto pelle d’uovo in cotone.
cm 190 x 180.

Biography
Enrico CASTELLANI was born in Castelmassa di Rovigo in 1930. He studied architecture and moved to Milan towards the end of the 1950s, where he became an active figure on the new art scene in which Lucio Fontana’s presence was crucial. In 1959 he abandoned a painting style in which informal and gestural echoes were present in order to begin a definition of the pictorial surfaces in which the monochromatically painted canvas is subjected to minimal introflections and extroflections caused by series of nails placed on the underlying supports. Light becomes a fundamental element in revealing the tension, the pauses and rhythms of a rigorous geometric interweaving. The surfaces, thus modulated and deprived of frames, formalize a new concept of spatiality. In 1959, in Milan, with Piero Manzoni and other artists, he founded the magazine “Azimuth” and a gallery of the same name. Present in major collections and international art fairs such as Documenta Kassel, Venice Biennali and Triennials, he was recently the subject of a major one-man show at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (2005). He lives and works in Celleno (VT).