ENRICO CASTELLANI: "Untiled" 48/50 Edition, signed. Dry Impression on paper, 34 x 34 cm. In fine condition.
Enrico Castellani (4 August 1930 – 1 December 2017) was an Italian artist. He was active in Italy from the early 1960s, and associated with Piero Manzoni and Vincenzo Agnetti [it]From 1959 he made monochromatic geometric reliefs using nails from a nail-gun to distort his canvases.

In 2010 he received the Praemium Imperiale for painting.

Castellani was born on 4 August 1930 in Castelmassa in the province of Rovigo, in the Veneto. He studied in Brussels, first sculpture and painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, and then architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre. He then went to live in Milan.[4] Castellani collaborated with artists such as Getulio Alviani, Piero Manzoni, and others.

He died on 1 December 2017 at his home, the Castello Orsini of Celleno, in the province of Viterbo in Lazio.