Live Auction 1582The Italian Sale
Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)
Lot 115 MAPPING MODERN ART IN ITALY. HALF A CENTURY OF ART FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION



Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)

Untitled

Closed16 October 2014

Price Realised

GBP 446,500

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Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)
Untitled
signed and dated 'E. Castellani 63' (on the stretcher)
acrylic on shaped canvas
33 1/8 x 47 1/4in. (84 x 120cm.)
Executed in 1963

Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan.
Galleria Tega, Milan.
Private Collection, New York.
Anon. sale, Christie’s New York, 10 July 2007, lot 154.
Private Collection, Italy.
Galerie Di Meo, Paris.
Kasmin Limited, London.
Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.

Specialist note

‘My surfaces in canvas or plastic laminate or other materials, plastically dematerialised by the lack of colour in so far as this is an element of composition, tend to modulate themselves and accept the third dimension which makes them perceptible. By now light is an instrument of this perception: they’re abandoned there in contingent accidentality, form and intensity. Although they do not belong to the dominion of painting or sculpture, and take from architecture the character of monumentality or scale its dimension down, my spaces are the reflection of that total interior space, devoid of contradictions, to which we all tend. Therefore they exist as objects of instantaneous assimilation for the duration of an act of communication, before time shuts them up inside their mental precariousness’.
(Castellani, quoted in R . Wirz, F. Sardella, Enrico Castellani: Catalogo ragionato, Vol. I, Milan, 2012, p. 73).