short biography

Enrico Castellani (b. 1930, Castelmassa / Italy; d. 2017, Celleno, Italy) was a painter, installation artist and a representative of conceptual art. His work made a significant contribution to the development of avant-garde art in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. The central theme of his work is light and space. From 1958 he was a member of the group "Movimento Arte Nucleare", which also included Manzoni, Fontana, Picabia and Bonalumi. In 1959 Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani opened Galleria Azimut in Milan (1959-1963) and published the first issue of their magazine Azimuth. Castellani studied painting and sculpture at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, and architecture at the École de La Cambre, Brussels.

ZERO, Minimal Art, Informal painting

Azimut (the gallery) and Azimuth (the review) were initiated by Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni, and became one of the great catalysts of Italian and European visual and conceptual culture.

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group

Piero Manzoni 
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collection/s

Ca la Ghironda, Bologna Centro Pecci, Prato Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia Daimler Contemporary, Berlin Fukuyama Museum of Art GAM Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin ° Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (closed) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington MACRO Rome MAMbo Bologna MUSPAC L´Aquila Mart Rovereto & Galleria Civica Trento Museion, Bozen/Bolzano Museo del Novecento, Milan Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Folkwang, Essen SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen The Herning Museum of Contemporary Art Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ZKM | Karlsruhe
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galleries

d´Arte Niccoli Fumagalli Greta Meert, Brüssel LGDR Paris Lia Rumma - Milan Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples Spazia, Bologna
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