The first volume, published in 2012 and edited by Renata Wirz and Federico Sardella, takes the form of an extensive and complete monograph that comprises more than one hundred and fifty colour photographs of the works created by Castellani – covering the years 1958-2012 – many of which were published here for the first time. The initial paintings, his first relief surface and some of those that followed, the diptychs and triptychs, the baldachins, the angular pieces, the atypical works, the environments and the installations: a selection of images that will permit entering the artist’s creative universe whose coherence which is free from fashions has always been the procedural force which is as up-to-date as it is timeless. The book is introduced by an essay by Bruno Corà (analysing the totality of Enrico Castellani’s creative career without foregoing the revelation of some of the most intimate and seductive aspects that characterise it) and an essay by Marco Meneguzzo (which tends to evaluate the reason why the artist’s work is fundamental and competitive on an international level). The first volume also contains Castellani’s main writings and a selection of photos which constitute a sort of unusual and hitherto unpublished biography by images.

    The second volume is the Catalogue Raisonné of works created between 1955 and 2005. It follows a chronological order and it covers the first five decades of the artist’s production. The artist was personally involved in this important recognition and he examined every published document and image.

    The third volume, published again by Skira in 2023, is edited by Lorenzo Wirz Castellani and Federico Sardella. The volume presents Castellani’s works on canvas, sculptures, high reliefs and installations not published in the previous two volumes of the 2012.

   The book is chronologically arranged to follow the authorised cataloging and numbering of the first two volumes. It includes works on canvas created by the artist between 2006 and 2016, the sculptures and the reliefs created with different materials and technical procedures between 2004 and 2015, and it updates the first two publications through photographs and detailed entries about those works – conceived from the mid-1940s through 2005 – that were not previously included. In addition to images of repertoire, detailed bibliographies and lists of solo and group exhibitions, the book features an introductory by Federico Sardella and an interview with Castellani given by the artist to Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2009.