Enrico Castellani was born in Castelmassa (RO) in 1930. He lives and works in Celleno (VT).
Together with Piero Manzoni, he founded Azimuth magazine and Azimut gallery in 1959. During that year, he also created his first evagination, exploring the potentiality of the surface of canvas in its maximum tension. Thus, he created a poetic, constant and rigorous style, which continues to develop still today, defining what art criticism has called a "different repetition".

Among his most important recent exhibitions are the participation in Identitè italien in 1981. L’art en Italie depuis 1959 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The retrospective exhibitions at Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia in 1996 and at Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trento in 1999. In 2001, an important exhibition at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, cured by Germano Celant and, in 2002, an exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge.

His relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 1997, when his one-man show was presented along with a catalogue with texts by Annamaria Maggi and Marco Meneguzzo. In 2001, a book on Enrico Castellani's work was published, cured by Galleria Fumagalli and with texts by Silvia Evangelisti and Annamaria Maggi. The book documents some of the main stages, from 1959 to 2000, exclusively by means of the images of exhibitions. Still in 2001, Galleria Fumagalli, in co-edition with Galleria Niccoli of Parma, proposed the anastatic reprint of both issues of Azimuth magazine published in 1959-60, cured by Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni.
In cooperation with the Archivio Opera Enrico Castellani, Galleria Fumagalli is working on the first volume of the Reasoned Catalogue of the artist.