A volume forming part of the series titled Incontro con l’artista e la sua opera which integrally includes the acts of the meeting organised by Bruno Corà which took place on the 10-11 December 1982 between Enrico Castellani and the students of the Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci” in Perugia.
Catalogue published in black and white on the occasion of the personal exhibition of Enrico Castellani at the Koh Gallery, in Tokyo, from 20 March to 18 April 1981. The exhibition included nine works, all of them described in the publication, made between 1961 and 1981, including an impressive polyptych consisting in four elements now part of the SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen (DEU) collection. From this catalogue, there’s a further version, with a different cover and the insert of a loose page with the image of a relief work printed in color.
Catalogue published by the Galleria Arte al Borgo on the occasion of Enrico Castellani’s one-man exhibition in Palermo inaugurated 4 May 1979. This publication contains an excerpt of a critical text by Gillo Dorfles, B & W photographs of four of the exhibited works, a brief biographical note, a list of the artist’s principal one-man and group exhibitions and a referential bibliography.
A catalogue in Dutch with a silver engraved cover published on the occasion of Enrico Castellani’s one-man exhibition at Artline in The Hague from 9 December 1978 to 22 January 1979. The catalogue contains a brief critical text by Doris Wintgens, a portion of a text by Castellani, photographs in B & W of two of the works exhibited, a brief biography and a list of the artist’s principal one-man and group exhibitions.
Catalog published in black and white on the exhibition by Enrico Castellani at the Jiyugaoka Gallery, in Tokyo, from the first to the 19th June 1977, with texts by the director of the gallery Nobuji Abuku, and Tadashi Yokoyama, architect and Associate Professor University of Tokyo. The exhibition included a series of works realized in relief paper, as well as a group of print runs realized in relief paper, folded or with serigraphic intervention, all of which were reproduced and described in the publication.
Catalogue published on the occasion of Enrico Castellani’s one-man exhibition at the Galleria La Polena in Genoa in November 1976. It contains the B & W photographs of two of the works exhibited, a series of details of these, a brief biographical note and a list of the artist’s principal one-man exhibitions.
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.
A catalogue published by Galleriaforma on the occasion of Enrico Castellani’s one-man exhibition held in Genoa from 25 November to 16 December 1972. The publication that lacks printed texts contains B & W photographs of some of the works exhibited taken by Mario Carrieri and Giorgio Colombo, brief biographical data and a list of the artist’s principal one-man and group exhibitions.
An unbound quarto catalogue published on the occasion of Enrico Castellani’s second one-man exhibition at the Galleria dell’Ariete in Milan (run by Beatrice Monti Della Corte) held from 16 February 1972. The publication contains the B & W photographs of three of the exhibited works, a brief biographical file, a list of the artist’s principal one-man and group exhibitions and an excerpt from Castellani’s text written for the large exhibition titled Lo spazio dell’immagine held at Palazzo Trinci in Foligno in July 1967 where for the first time the artist proposed the habitable and traversable work entitled Ambiente bianco [White Environment].
An artist’s book published by Achille Mauri in 1968 with a critical text by Vincenzo Agnetti and a graphic project conceived by Giorgio Colombo. The paperback in coated paper, gloss paper and cardboard is contained in a carton slipcase in which a Castellani’s relief can be found, a relief in white PVC in a series of 1000 (neither signed nor numbered). The volume, which also exists in a German version, contains an opening file dedicated to the artist with his fingerprint, a brief biography and numerous colour and B & W photographs by Giorgio Colombo, Franco Angeli, Ugo Mulas and Uliano Lucas that document a large number of Castellani’s works and the different moments of their creation.
