TECTONICA

The Tectonica series was first exhibited at the XVIII Triennale di Milano in 1992 and was subsequently developed in different modularities, materials, and finishes, ranging from blonde Lecce stone milled with CAD-CAM technology to cold gilded resin adorned with palladium leaf.

Seen in plan view, the surface of Tectonica — whose name alludes to the effect generated by the collision of tectonic plates — has the distinctive feature of transforming its appearance in surprising ways depending on the position of the light source and the observer, thanks to its multiple facets.

The aesthetic power of this faceted surface stages a universal expressive code based on the repetition of a single geometric imprint, which Castelli has developed over the years into a kind of figurative monomania. Tectonica embodies his "No-Form" vision: the affirmation of the primacy of matter, endowed with an intrinsic expressiveness.

Tectonica X (Raw Wood, CAD/CAM), 1991, 60 x 72 cm
Tectonica Gold, 2016, 80 x 60 cm
Tectonica Gold, 2016, 100 x 225 cm
Clino Castelli: Tectonica, Galleria Pero, Milano,  2016
Artcrate Tectonica, 2013, Plaster and Acrylic in a Wooden Box, cm 100x80

Tectonica OL, 2011

  • Poplar wood and gold-leaf gilding

  • Private Collection

Tectonica OT, 2012

  • CAD-CAM on gray Lecce Sandstone

  • Private Collection

Tectonica OL, 2012

  • CAD-CAM on Blond Lecce Sandstone

  • Price available upon request.

Tectonica OT, 2013

  • Bologna plaster mould and gold-leaf gilding

  • Private Collection

Tectonica VB, 2014

  • Paulownia wood and gold-leaf gilding mission

  • Private Collection

Tectonica OT, 2014

  • CAD-CAM on resin and gold-leaf gilding

  • Price available upon request.

Tectonica OB, 2016

  • CAD-CAM resin and gold-leaf gilding

  • Private Collection

Tectonica OT, 2016

  • CAD-CAM resin and palladium-leaf gilding

  • Price available upon request.

Tectonica VT, 2016

  • CAD-CAM on resin and palladium-leaf gilding

  • Private Collection

Tectonica STL, 2016

  • CAD-CAM resin and burnished silver-leaf gilding

  • Price available upon request.

Tectonica OL, 2016

  • CAD-CAM resin and gold-leaf gilding

  • Private Collection

Tectonica OT, 2016

  • CAD-CAM on resin and Armenian Red Clay (bole)

  • Private Collection

Tectonica VT, 2016

  • CAD-CAM on resin and Armenian Red Clay (bole)

  • Price available upon request.

Tectonica VT, 2016

  • CAD-CAM resin and red gold-leaf gilding

  • Price available upon request.

Tectonica VT, 2016

  • CAD-CAM on resin and brownish gold-leaf gilding

  • Private Collection

Tectonica VTR, 2021

  • CAD-CAM resin and gold-leaf gilding

  • Private Collection

Artcrate Tectonica, 2013

  • Plaster and Acrylic in a Wooden Box

  • Price available upon request.

Artcrate Tectonica, 2016

  • CAD/CAM on resin in a wooden box

  • Price available upon request.

Tectonica Medium Abrushed, 2016

  • Hand-knotted Himalayan wool carpet

  • Price available upon request.

    • Morozzi, Cristina. "Parole forti e immagini deboli", Modo, n. 141 (May, 1992)

    • Dominoni Annalisa. "Clino Trini Castelli. Mobili in rilievo", Domus, n. 752 (September, 1993)

    • Mascheroni, Loredana. "Il primato della materia", Domus, n. 797 (October, 1997)

    • Michele Mancino, “L’artigiano non è solo saper fare”, Varese news, October 14, 2011

    • Ilaria Fusco, “Il server ecologico firmato Castelli pronto per l’era della nuvola”, supplemento de La Repubblica, June, 2013

    • Stefano Pirovano, “In dialogue with Clino Trini Castelli and the No-Form side of creativity”, Conceptual Fine Arts, 2015

    • Renato Pennisi, Clino Trini Castelli in conversazione con Renato Pennisi, in AA.VV., April, 2015

    • Alighiero | Clino | Michelangelo. “All’origine dell'Arte povera: tre importanti opere dalla collezione di Clino Trini Castelli”, Milan. Modern and Contemporary, Christie’s International, March, 2015

    • Guido Musante, “Mater Materia 2”, Interni n. 649, March, 2015

    • Marcelo Lima, “Entrevista Clino Castelli: Para designer italiano ‘a forma é secundária’” Casa Decoração, September 7, 2015

    • Marcelo Lima, “A forma é secundaria”. Entrevista Clino Castelli, Casa Estadão, Suplemento Jornal O Estado de São Paulo, September 6-12, 2015

    • AA.VV., “Tectonica. Ecologia della forma”, Interni, n°4, April, 2016

    • Guido Musante, “No-Form Matrix: Clino T. Castelli / Tectonica”, Babylon Magazine Architecture, April 25, 2016

    • Giampiero Bosoni, “Clino Trini Castelli. La pratica della lungimiranza”, Abitare n. 555, June, 2016

    • Monica Moro, “Luce non luce. La penombra come grande fondale luminoso della sintesi RGB”. Intervista a Clino Trini Castelli, Luce, n. 318, December, 2016

    • Clino Trini Castelli, “Mater materia, in Marinella Ferrara, Ceppi Giulio, Ideas and the matter. What will be made of and what will the world made of?”, List, October, 2017

    • Milan, Italy, Triennale di Milano, XIII Triennale "La vita tra cose e natura. Il progetto e la sfida ambientale", installazione "Consistenza: Scenario Qualistico", February 6 - May 3, 1992

    • Milan, Italy, Galleria Giuseppe Pero, “Tectonica. Plates and Artcrates”, April 8 - 29, 2016

    • Milan, Italy, Castelli Design Studio, “Tectonica. Models and Applications”, April 11 - 17, 2016

    • Bergamo, Italy, Villa Grismodi-Finardi, Dimore Design - “Stanze d’Ombra”, September 4 - October 5, 2016

    • Milan, Italy, Galleria Consadori, “Rosso”, September 20 - October 15, 2016

    • Milan, Italy, Galleria Consadori, “Metallo bianco lucente - Le età dell’argento”, September 12 - October 20, 2018

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