Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)
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Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)

Superficie bianca

Details
Enrico Castellani (b. 1930)
Superficie bianca
signed, titled and dated 'Castellani - Superficie bianca - 2009 -' (on the overlap)
acrylic on canvas
47¼ x 59in. (120 x 150cm.)
Painted in 2009
Provenance
Haunch of Venison, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Seoul, Gallery Seomi, Enrico Castellani, 2010 (illustrated in colour, p. 25).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

'For the artist, the need to find new modes of expression is animated by the need for the absolute. To meet this requirement, the only possible compositional criterion is that through the possession of an elementary entity - a line, an indefinitely repeatable rhythm and a monochrome surface - it is necessary to give the works themselves the concreteness of infinity that may undergo the conjugation of time, the only comprehensible dimension and the yardstick and the justification of our spiritual needs'
(E. Castellani quoted in 'Continuit e nuovo', in Azimuth, no. 2, Milan, 1960).

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