A CHRONOLOGY OF THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO TODAY
The last night
December 11th 2015
LOVE SHACK
Solo Exhibition
September – November 2015
Research Exhibition
June – August 2015
Groups’ Exhibition
April – June 2015
A Season of Events
January – March 2015
In 2014
APPROX. 13 HOURS
Solo Exhibition
November 2014 – January 2015
Gallery & Book Events
September – October 2014
Group Exhibition
May 16 – July 26, 2014
CIAO
Solo Exhibition
March 15 – May 10, 2014
Triple Solo Shows
January 17 – March 1, 2014
In 2013
ALBERT MERTZ
Solo Exhibition
November 18 – January 11, 2013
PARIS
Solo Exhibition
November 8 – January 11, 2013
Group Exhibition
October 2013
Group Exhibition
September – October 2013
HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU, AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN
Group Exhibition
June – August 2013
Group Exhibition
April – June 2013
P∞L (CONSENSUS)
Solo Exhibition
February – April 2013
In 2012
EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
Group Exhibition
December 2012 – January 2013
ENCOURAGE LUCID GROUPUSCULES
Solo Exhibition
September – October 2012
DRAFT OF A VOICE-OVER FOR SPLIT SCREEN VIDEO LOOP
Solo Exhibition
May – July 2012
A month-long of eventing and drinking
May, 2012
PROVISIONAL SPACE
Group Exhibition
February – March 2012
In 2011
Unauthorized Solo Exhibition
December 2011 – February 2012
THE PROJECTING STAGE
Solo Exhibition
September – October 2011
HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU, AGAIN AND AGAIN
Group Exhibition
June – August 2011
Group Exhibition
May – June 2011
DYP 1-7
Solo Exhibition
February – April 2011
In 2010
INTER-PRESENCE. UN LIVRE – UNE COMMUNAUTE
Solo Exhibition
December 2010- February 2011
BOAT, NOW
Solo Exhibition
September – November 2011
AN UNPARDONABLE SIN
Group Exhibition
July – September 2010
INTO THE NOIT
Solo Exhibition
June – July 2010
Group Exhibition
April-May 2010
Group Exhibition
January – March 2010
In 2009
Blackout What You Like!
Conversation
November 2009
92 VIDEOS OF TORTURE IN 4 BOXES
Solo Exhibition
October – December, 2009
HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU, AGAIN
Group Exhibition
August – September 2009
RED FLAGS
Solo Exhibition
May – July 2009
Monographic Collective Exhibition
February – March 2009
In 2008
December 2008 – January 2009
CRUNCH TIME
Solo Exhibition
October – November 2008
THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING
Performative act
August 2008
Group Exhibition
July – August 2008
La vocation d’hétérodoxie
Talk
June, 2008
Season of Events
April – May 2008
Group Exhibition
February – March 2008
In 2007
Grand inauguration
December 2007
What is to be done? (Tokyo)
Conversation
November 2007
SOY EL FINAL DE LA REPRODUCCION
Group Exhibition
October – November 2007
HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU
Group exhibition
July – September 2007
LION EYES
Solo Exhibition
June – July 2007
COLLAPSE OF THE EXPANDED FIELD
Solo Exhibition
May – June 2007
What could make this building beautiful?
Talk
May 2007
L’ARRIERE SAISON
Solo Exhibition
May 2007
OSCAR TUAZON / MIKE FREEMAN
Solo Exhibition
April 2007
Group Exhibition
February – March 2007
18th December, 2013 – January 11, 2013
It wouldn’t be Christmas if there were no surprises. At castillo/corrales, this takes the form of an extra exhibition squeezed in the calendar and new seasonal opening hours for the bookshop.
Opening on Wednesday December 17th, castillo/corrales hosts Tif’s Desk, for an original presentation of the work of Albert Mertz. Between sometime in the early 1960’s and up until 1976, Albert Mertz resided in Savigny-sur-Orge, a thirty-minute train ride from the center of Paris. But Mertz never really got ready to leave for the party and chose to spend this lengthy residency abroad from his native Denmark at home, looking, thinking, writing, and smoking Gauloises cigarettes. He much prefered listening to the party from his studio.
When conceptual art became a regular party’s theme, not just in Paris but all over the place, Mertz mingled in his own way, staying home working and chain smoking. He filled thousands of pages in standard-sized notebooks with writing and collage in which he considered the entire history of art alongside its present purpose and then, at some point in 1968, in a cloud of smoke, a strategy was formed. He called it the “Red/Blue Proposition.”
In his own completely offbeat way, Mertz chose to apply the colors red and blue to an array of objects (chairs, paper, televisions, canvases), and he sticked to this idea up until his last days in 1990. Presented here are 33 Gauloises cigarette wrappers painted red and blue, a bottle of French wine whose label is painted red and blue, and a canvas with a collaged postcard of Buster Keaton at the Eiffel Tower.
There were many things to choose from Mertz’s vast corpus of works; but these seemed best for this place.
Tif’s desk originated as a project space in the office of Thomas Solomon Gallery (Los Angeles) in 2011. Situated in gallery director Tif Sigfrids’ desk, Tif’s Desk hosted rotating exhibitions in tandem with the regular gallery program. Mobility, as a function of the desk’s Ikea build, has made it possible for this program to continue in a variety of locations including apartments, art fairs, and now for the first time internationally.
Tif’s Desk cabinet-like exhibition runs parallel to Duncan Hannah’s solo show “Paris,” still on view at castillo/corrales.