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#Glossary #6⁠⠀
#RADICALITY⁠⠀
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3/3 #EnricoCastellani | Milan, 2001⁠⠀
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“In 1958, when Castellani’s artistic career was just getting underway, his style still reflected the influence of Art Informel, but in the space of just a few months he opted for the impoverishment of the gestural sign in favour of the progressive, systematic elaboration of such pictorial elements as the canvas and colour. ⁠⠀
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The first result was the reduction of the painting to an object rather than a subject, in the sense that the linear and colour contortions of his early paintings […] gradually made way for the elimination of his personal gesture in order to focus on the introspection of the materials. ⁠⠀
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[…] This process was an attempt to resolve the conflict between his new awareness, which was individual, and the extension in space and time of this awareness when this was translated into the forms of a visual language.”⁠⠀
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Words by #GermanoCelant⁠⠀
“Dietro il quadro: Enrico Castellani”, in “Enrico Castellani”, a book published by #FondazionePrada