Part of an Interview with Enrico in 1966, with Mila Pistoi, Milan Italy.
Mila:
Based on the development of his intimate thought, taken out of the real context of space and time, variations in taste and decline of fashion, is this work therefore out-of-date because it is lacking in topical content?
Enrico Castellani:
An artist's work, if he is an artist, is always out of date.
Instead, topical questions mark the needs and urgency of those in power; their need to bring apparent order to the passing of time.
The artist works are immersed in a sphere of time/reality as seen from a topical point of view.
This is because the artist acts on the basic of a collective memory in which Art's entire history contributes to his culture, to his way of being, thus making his proposal active and linking it to other requirements and needs.
Enrico Castellani worked with Piero Manzoni writing for their magazine AZIMUTH. He also worked with Yves Klein and the ZERO Group, writing for the magazine, ZERO.
Since 1975 he has been living and working at Celleno, a province of Vierbo Italy. He continues to work and show worldwide. He was born in 1930.