Enrico Castellani
A volume forming part of the series titled Quaderni published by the Dipartimento di Arte Contemporanea dell’Università di Parma – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione on the occasion of Enrico Castellani’s one-man exhibition in the spacious rooms of the Scuderia alla Pilotta in Parma in 1976. The publication can be considered as being a sort of first ‘acknowledgement raisonné’ treating the artist’s work and contains two long critical texts by Achille Bonito Oliva and Arturo Carlo Quintavalle. These are followed by the most important writings by Enrico Castellani and by the interviews with Carla Lonzi and Lea Vergine. The volume also comprises a comprehensive anthology of critical texts – extrapolated from catalogues, reviews and newspapers – by Vincenzo Agnetti, Germano Beringhelli, Giorgio De Marchis, Gillo Dorfles, Carla Lonzi, Filiberto Menna, Dario Micacchi, Leo Paolazzi, Mario Perazzi, Lorenza Trucchi, Lea Vergine and Marisa Volpi. In addition to the four full-page colour photographs that accompany the texts of the artist, the catalogue of the works includes one hundred B & W photographs, numbered and complete with captions referring to the works on canvas, those on paper and of the installations covering the period 1958 – 1975.