Forming part of the series edited by Giulio Guberti titled Artisti Contemporanei, the volume was published on the occasion of Enrico Castellani’s large anthological exhibition housed in the rooms of the Pinacoteca Comunale – Loggetta Lombardesca in Ravenna from 9 June to 16 September 1984. With its particularly well-conceived graphic project and its wealth of content matter treating the evolution of the artist’s work from its beginnings up until 1984, this publication contains copious colour and B & W photographic documentation – mainly published for the first time – that deals with the artist’s work and his life. The large volume is subdivided into three parts: in the first Adachiara Zevi presents the artist’s work in an in-depth critical essay organised in five ‘moments’ in which she covers Castellani’s entire artistic career. The second part that talks about materials is made up of Two Questions to Enrico Castellani that deal with the artist’s opinions about art, social commitment and the value of history. This is followed by numerous pages that offer the reader with the artist’s most important writings (one of which published for the first time) and transcripts of his interviews. The third part instead comprises a rich bibliographical section with excerpts from the critical essays of the main critics who have written about Castellani. There are also two previously unpublished interventions by Emilio Villa and Gillo Dorfles, an extensive general bibliography drawn up for this volume, a list of the artist’s principal one-man and group exhibitions and a list of the works on exhibit.
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.
Catalog published in black and white on the personal exhibition of Enrico Castellani at the Koh Gallery, in Tokyo, from the 20th March to 18th April 1981. The exhibition included nine works, all described in the publication, made between 1961 and 1981, including an impressive polyptych consisting in four elements now part of the Schaufler Foundation collection, Sinderlfingen (A). From this catalog, 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].