Enrico Castellani
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. From 1959 he made monochromatic geometric reliefs using nails from a nail-gun to distort his canvases.
Enrico Castellani
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- Born
- 1930. · Castelmassa.
- Died
- 2017. · Viterbo.
- Nationality
- Italy and Kingdom of Italy.
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor, mixed media, architect and installation artist.
- Fields
- visual arts, painting, art of sculpture and architecture.
- Honours
- Praemium Imperiale.
- Languages
- Italian.
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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. From 1959 he made monochromatic geometric reliefs using nails from a nail-gun to distort his canvases.
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Life
Life
In 2010 he received the Praemium Imperiale for painting.
The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is visual arts, painting and art of sculpture. Work by Enrico Castellani is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Distinctions recorded are Praemium Imperiale.
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. Castellani collaborated with artists such as Getulio Alviani, Piero Manzoni, and others.
Death
Death
He died on 1 December 2017 at his home, the Castello Orsini of Celleno, in the province of Viterbo in Lazio.
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1930
Enrico Castellani born at Castelmassa.
1982
Enrico Castellani, o, La superficie "ben temperata" is dated 1982.
2017
Enrico Castellani died at Viterbo.
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- 1.Castellani, Enrico. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . .
- 2.Vincenzo Trione (1 December 2017). Morto Enrico Castellani, avventuroso artista della geometria (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. Archived 3 December 2017.
- 3.Silvia Lucchesi (2003). Castellani, Enrico. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . .
- 4.[s.n.] (14 September 2010). The recipients of the 22nd Praemium Imperiale. The Japan Art Association. Archived 24 October 2017.
- 5.[s.n.] (2010). 2010: Painting: Enrico Castellani. The Japan Art Association. Archived 22 December 2017.
- 6.Rosalba Zuccaro (1991). Castellani, Enrico (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana, V appendice. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed September 2022.
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