Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, Emilio Steinberger, and the staff of Lévy Gorvy deeply mourn the loss of Enrico Castellani. A seminal postwar Italian artist, he passed away on December 1 at the age of 87. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Lorenzo Castellani and the Castellani family. Castellani was a catalytic figure in the European postwar avant-garde, co-founding the experimental journal, Azimuth, and the Galleria Azimut with Piero Manzoni. Together, they organized innovative exhibitions and published essays that provided alternatives to the dogmatic ideologies of Tachisme and Art Informel, which dominated the European art scene at the time. Through his art and writings, Castellani advanced an approach to painting that refuted the traditional conception of the canvas as a transparent window,
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