(born in Castelmassa, Rovigo in 1930)
Superficie verde, 1991, signed on the reverse Enrico Castellani-Superficie verde-1991, acrylic on shaped canvas, 100 x 80 cm (under perspex frame)

Photo certificate:
Archivio Enrico Castellani, Milan, no. 91–013

Provenance:
C. M. Collection, Rome
European Private Collection

Literature:
R. Wirz/F. Sardella, Enrico Castellani Catalogo ragionato, Opere 1955–2005, Skira (ed.), Milan 2012,vol. II, p. 514, no. 721 with ill.

“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. They are constituted by a flat membrane, the physical characteristic of which – elasticity and spatial continuity – are not altered by the process of formation…..

The structures resulting from this operation are matched by others that are both equal and opposite and thus cancel each other out in the organisation of spatial totality. Reality, too, always has an obverse and reverse that, by fitting together, deny each other in turn”
Enrico Castellani, quoted in G. Celant (ed.) Enrico Castellani, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2001,p. 243