ERIC DEL CASTILLO

ABDUCTIONS OF ERIC DEL CASTILLO narrative

Carlos Aranda Marquez

Exhibition´s text
ABDUCTIONS
At Instituto Cultural Mexicano.
San Antonio Texas, U.S.A. 1998.

 

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  Where do this wonderful stories come from? this is the first
  Think we ask our selves when we see the collages of Eric del
  Castillo (Mexico City, 1962), and an answer we can offer,
  Among a sea of possibillities is: try to adjust your stare to
  1/25 of a second while surfing fase trough the TV with the
  remote control. If you show the speed, the eye Hill be capable
  of consentrating itself upon these inusual images that own
  more to the World of publicity in the mass media than to the
  school of collage created by the modernist artist at the
  beginning of this century.

  The merit of Eric´s del Castillo lies in accelering or slowing
  The speed of the visual perception in this ocean of images and
  Create at his Hill the mataphors he wants to remark.
  Otherwise, these angels trying to fly or to descend on these
  Imaginary lands wouldn´t be able to do it because the remote
  Control of the reality channels has gone crazy. Many of these
  works of art are visual echoes of his musical interest, but
  nobody should dare to call him a post-psychedelic artist.
  you'll hear his ironic laughter.

  Eric´s del Castillo dreams fully awake. This is another finding
  In these collages, we see snapshots we think we have dreamed
  ourselves. Beautiful women, edgy situations, peculiar
  adventures, everything is gathered here in a precise way and
  in opposite semantic fields, where the abyss or the emptiness
  sorrounds the cosmos of images.

  What can we add? Eric del Castillo is a filmaker on paper, we
  Are voyeurs on his storyboards, of that private World where
  The artist has abducted fragments of nanosecond of images,
  And he has edited them for his movie.
  Let us be kidnapped by his vision.