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Enrico Castellani

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Enrico Castellani
Born4 August 1930
Died1 December 2017
AwardsPraemium Imperiale, 2010

Enrico Castellani (4 August 1930 – 1 December 2017) was an Italian artist. He was active in Italy from the early 1960s, and associated with Piero Manzoni and Vincenzo Agnetti [it].[1][2][3] From 1959 he made monochromatic geometric reliefs using nails from a nail-gun to distort his canvases.[4]

In 2010 he received the Praemium Imperiale for painting.[5]

Life

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Castellani was born on 4 August 1930 in Castelmassa in the province of Rovigo, in the Veneto. He studied in Brussels, first sculpture and painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, and then architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre. He then went to live in Milan.[4] Castellani collaborated with artists such as Getulio Alviani, Piero Manzoni, and others.

He died on 1 December 2017 at his home, the Castello Orsini of Celleno, in the province of Viterbo in Lazio.[6][4]

References

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  1. ^ Silvia Lucchesi (2003). Castellani, Enrico. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T014675. (subscription required).
  2. ^ Castellani, Enrico. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00033518. (subscription required).
  3. ^ Rosalba Zuccaro (1991). Castellani, Enrico (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana, V appendice. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed September 2022.
  4. ^ a b c [s.n.] (2010). 2010: Painting: Enrico Castellani. The Japan Art Association. Archived 22 December 2017.
  5. ^ [s.n.] (14 September 2010). The recipients of the 22nd Praemium Imperiale. The Japan Art Association. Archived 24 October 2017.
  6. ^ Vincenzo Trione (1 December 2017). Morto Enrico Castellani, avventuroso artista della geometria (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. Archived 3 December 2017.
  • Enrico Castellani, New Angular, Double Angular, 2009-2011 in "MozArt" - edited by Bruno Corà, Perugia, 3Arte - Ali&no editrice, n.1, 2012, p. 6-14 - ISBN 978-88-6254-092-6
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