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In 2015

• THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT at Yale Union, Portland

 
In 2014

• L’ÉPOQUE, LES VALEURS, LES HUMEURS, L’ATTENTION at Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
• L’OMBRE D’UN DOUTE / I TVIVLENS SKYGGE at Years, Copenhagen
• ISSUES OF OUR TIME (3) at Artists Space Books & Talks, New York

 
In 2013

• ALONG THE GRAIN at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova
• OFFICE HOURS at Lost Property, Amsterdam
• THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN BOOKS, BUT NOT MUCH MORE at Art Metropole, Toronto

 
In 2012

• 100 YEARS OF CHEERS : MACHU PICCHU at la monnaie de Paris
• BREAKING POINT: KATHRYN BIGELOW’S LIFE IN ART at kim?, Riga

 
In 2011

• FREAKS AND GEEKS at Air de Paris Gallery
• THE WAY IT WASN’T at Culturgest, Porto
• THE ADVANTAGE OF EXPLANATION, at Centre George Pompidou, Paris
• BREAKING POINT: KATHRYN BIGELOW’S LIFE IN ART at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

 
In 2010

• THE WAY IT WASN’T at Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis
• THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE BOOK at De Vleeshal, Middelburg
• BREAKING POINT: KATHRYN BIGELOW’S LIFE IN ART at Signal, Malmö

 
In 2009

• SECTION 7 BOOKS at FIAC Art Fair, Paris
• A COLLABORATION WITH KATINKA BOCK at Bétonsalon, Paris
• PARTICIPATION IN “TALK SHOW” at ICA, London
• GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

 
In 2008

• AFTER THE LAST DAYS OF MANKIND, at Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul
• UN AGREABLE MOUVEMENT DANS LES IDEES at Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
• SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME PART 2 at Kadist Foundation, Paris

Midway Contemporary Art, THE WAY IT WASN’T

Lutz Bacher, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Leon Golub, Aaron Flint Jamison, Owen Land, CS Leigh, Nils Norman, Willem Oorebeek, Amy Sillman, Joe Scanlan, Sturtevant, Oscar Tuazon, Heimo Zobernig

Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis

November 20, 2010 – January 15, 2011 / Opening Saturday November 20, 7pm

When can an independent art space feel it is old enough to revive its own history in the form of a retrospective exhibition? When is it right to think its record of activities deserves a historicizing publication? The answer is ten years. It is the convention that seems to apply here. Ten years is what distinguishes real proof of accomplishment from self-aggrandizing thinking.

Ten years. Let’s celebrate ten years of castillo/corrales then.

The Way It Wasn’t questions the ineluctable establishment of a once-considered-alternative organization. It addresses the illusion of coherence that such a day-by-day endeavor often gains in retrospect, as well as the overblown importance that a small, localized structure can take in the view from afar. Celebrating ten years of trials of castillo/corrales in Minnesota means to show more than there actually is. The Way It Wasn’t draws from exhibitions and projects which did take place in the 29-square-meter Paris-based gallery, and from ones which almost did. Some were only discussed but got postponed. For others, it just wasn’t the right time.

The Way It Wasn’t combines some of the artworks, positions, and statements which have made castillo/corrales over all these years, including elements from Doomsday Celebration, Red Flags, Breaking Point: Kathryn Bigelow’s Life in Art, and the three biennial summer exhibitions titled Hello Goodbye Thank You, but also from projects such as 1992, The Robert Musil Show, Gaston in Mexico, or Notorious CS Leigh, and from some of the many events held at castillo/corrales’ bookstore Section 7 Books.

Ten years: 2000-2010, an account of this decade’s art, society, and state of mind, as seen through the life and times, the acts and words, the highs and lows of an independent art space in Paris.

Let’s celebrate ten years of castillo/corrales, already.

MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART
527 Second Avenue SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414
t. 612-605-4504
www.midwayart.org