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Gentle venture
Polytype 72
Fourth Black
Gray surface
Blue call
Spatial concept, Waits, 7 cuts
Spatial, Waiting, Red concept
Structure n. 731
Horse and Rider
Wild Centaurea
Continuous serial
Landscape
Composition
Grey
G.D.4
Gentle venture
Polytype 72
Fourth Black
Gray surface
Blue call
Spatial concept, Waits, 7 cuts
Spatial, Waiting, Red concept
Structure n. 731
Horse and Rider
Wild Centaurea
Continuous serial
Landscape
Composition
Grey
G.D.4

Gray surface

Enrico Castellani

Displayed in:

MACI - Museum of Contemporary Art of Imperia

MACI - Museum of Contemporary Art of Imperia

Viale Matteotti, 151, Imperia

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The work is part of the series of monochrome surfaces created by Castellani in the sixties. As for Fontana, also for Castellani the dimension of time (and even more of space) enters the picture. The three-dimensionality of his works is characterized by an alternation of extroflections and introflections of the canvas, created starting from a complex frame structure. This is in fact a wooden grid on which the artist sticks an ordered series of nails, the ends of which are covered with plastic caps, to avoid piercing the canvas that is spread over. After this operation Castellani drives the nails from the front and applies the acrylic paint in several coats on the canvas, sanding the surface to obtain greater homogeneity. The result is a structured form in protrusions and depressions impressed on the canvas, which thus assumes a spatial value. In the work on display there are 99 uphill points and 88 downhill ones, to create a monochrome structure in which the light value makes and undoes the image, depending on the exposure and lighting of the same. It is the observer himself who activates the potential dynamism of the structure: the work can in fact be considered as part of that initial nucleus of works connected to the optical-visual theories, supported by Castellani in the early sixties.
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Title: Gray surface

Author: Enrico Castellani

Date: 1964

Technique: Acrylic colors on canvas, wooden structure and stainless steel nails

Displayed in: MACI - Museum of Contemporary Art of Imperia

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