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Lot 106
Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)
Superficie bianca (White Surface)
Closed1 July 2015
Price Realised
GBP 206,500
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Specialist note
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).
‘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).