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Enrico Castellani
1930-2017 · Azimut, ZERO, Minimalism
The club deal
- Status
- Fundraising open
- Minimum per member
- USD 100,000 (US residents: USD 200,000 individuals, USD 1,000,000 entities)
- Fundraising target
- 1,000,000 USD
- Selection window
- 12 months, with return of the capital if no suitable work is found
- Vehicle
- a dedicated SPV for this artist
- Expected exit
- between 3 and 7 years, through auction or private sale
How the club deal for each artist works · Costs
If no suitable work is found within 12 months, the capital paid in is returned.
Price range of the works the club looks for
from 1,000,000 to 6,000,000 USD (0.1-0.6 million for the Superfici correnti, 1-6 million for the large formats of the 1960s)
Market liquidity: medium
Biography
Enrico Castellani studied art and architecture in Brussels and co-founded the Azimut gallery and review with Piero Manzoni in Milan in 1959. From that year he made the Superfici: monochrome canvases stretched over a grid of nails so that the surface rises and sinks in regular rhythms of light and shadow. He pursued this single idea for almost sixty years, in white, black, red, silver and aluminium, and is now seen as a European forerunner of Minimalism and a central member of the ZERO network. Donald Judd praised him early. His market boomed between 2010 and 2018 together with Fontana and Bonalumi. Prices have since cooled, but early 1960s Superfici remain sought after.
Auction record
6,100,000 USD: Superficie bianca, 1967, Sotheby's, Londra (source)
Recent auction results
- 187,700 USD: Superficie bianca (1959), Sotheby's, Londra, 2026-03-05 (source)
- 206,300 USD: Superficie alluminio (2001), Christie's, Parigi, 2025-10-24 (source)
- 547,100 USD: Dittico nero-argento (1964), Christie's, Parigi (source)
- 327,700 USD: Superficie nera No. 3 (1964), Christie's, Parigi (source)
Market data: public auction results with date, auction house and source, the same data as Unicorn Art Watch.
Museums
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
- Centre Pompidou, Parigi
- Museo del Novecento, Milano
Sources
- Masterworks, Enrico Castellani
- Curating the Contemporary, Sotheby's Italian Sale 2014
- HENI News, profilo Enrico Castellani
- HENI News, Superficie bianca marzo 2026
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