“SPONTE SUA FORTE”, ORANGE EXPORT LTD.

A companion to our summer show dedicated to the publishing house, Orange Export Ltd., “sponte sua forte” takes over their motto and represents, spontaneously and by chance, their distinctive production. The booklet is conceived as a visual document: a series of photographs of the books themselves, as they were gathered before the show, along with […]

“HISTORY AND LOVE, PLEASURE AND TIME”, MARTIN BECK

“History and Love, Pleasure and Time” is the 8th installment in our ongoing series, castillo/corrales today. A new essay written by Martin Beck, it reflects on the artist’s engagement with a particular night in the history of New York’s dance culture, first in the book Last Night (White Columns, 2013), and then in his exhibition […]

“SO LITTLE TO DO AND SO MUCH TIME TO DO IT” MARIE ANGELETTI, CAMILLE BLATRIX, JEAN-ALAIN CORRE, AUDREY COTTIN, HENDRIK HEGRAY, MÉLANIE MATRANGA

A conversation with six young French-speaking artists, and how they see, and live with/through/along with/in spite of, the times. Edited and designed by castillo/corrales, published on the occasion of “L’Époque, les humeurs, les valeurs, l’attention”, 16e Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, 10 Sept. – 31 Oct. 2014. With Marie Angeletti, Camille Blatrix, Jean-Alain Corre, Audrey Cottin, […]

“THE DRUMMER”, SARA JAFFE

“The Drummer / Le Batteur”, by Portland-based writer and musician Sara Jaffe, formerly from Erase Erata, is a novella about coming of age as a member of an indie rock band struggling with the clichéd touring lifestyle that inevitably goes with it. When ‘your band can’t be (all) your life’. Edited and designed by castillo/corrales, […]

“A MODEST PROJECT”, JULIEN MAHON

With a wry sense of humour and a sharp attention to the lingua franca of the institution and of the press, Julien Mahon, in “Un modeste projet/A modest project” polemicizes with what means means being a young filmmaker in today’s French cinema. Edited and designed by castillo/corrales, published on the occasion of “L’Époque, les humeurs, […]

“J’AI FROID”, S. MEINECHE HANSEN, N. HENRIKSEN, S. BOIJE AF GENNÄS & A. ISHMAEL

Published on the aftermath of the exhibition “J’ai froid,” the fourth issue of castillo/corrales today comprises two essays and a dialogue, all dealing with oppositional strategies by cultural producers in Scandinavia. Through a reading of the work and practices of artists and black metal musicians, the publication reflects on the contentions of Scandinavian culture and […]

“RIEN N’EST MAGIQUE”, CLARA SCHULMANN

“Marie Angeletti ne se positionne pas dans le registre de l’apparition surnaturelle. Les images qu’elle produit sont chargées d’une tension dont le maquillage, la lumière, le cadrage sont les adjuvants. Reprises, recadrées, leur mise en circulation dépend d’une série d’opérations. Mais c’est avant tout à une rythmique de l’image, à sa puissance de séduction, que […]

“RELATIVE DISTANCE”, JOHN BEESON

The first issue of castillo/corrales today comprises “Relative Distance,” an original essay by John Beeson, dealing with the work of Nicolas Ceccaldi, Marlie Mul, Charlotte Prodger. It was published on the occasion of “The Season of the Which,” a programme of three solo shows that was on view at castillo/corrales from January 17 to March […]

castillo/corrales TODAY

castillo/corrales today is a new publication series initiated in 2014 that runs parallel to the program of castillo/corrales. Each issue echoes the shows, or sometimes the events, held in the space; not in order to give them a fixed meaning, or to facilitate their appreciation, but, rather, to consider a broader context and to set […]