Jacobo Castellano

Jacobo Castellano’s collaboration with Benveniste Contemporary extends the dialogue initiated with his 2021 exhibition Retablos, in which the artist reinterpreted devotional structures as sculptural vessels of memory. In that project, wood-aged, worn, and deeply symbolic- served both as material and subject, evoking personal and collective narratives. Castellano continues to expand this approach through printmaking, which he does not treat as a separate discipline, but rather as a tactile extension of his sculptural language. His prints are made using the same reclaimed wood found in his sculptures, inked and pressed directly onto paper. This act of transition becomes a way of marking presence, of registering the past and texture of the object through physical impression.

The title of his new project, n. Trace, sign, or vestige left by someone or something, is drawn from the definition of a mark - an idea that deeply resonates within Castellano’s practice. His prints are not reproductions, but remnants: records of contact and transformation. They preserve the irregularities and embedded histories of the material itself. In this way, printmaking becomes a continuation of his sculptural exploration of absence and memory, where every mark left behind stands as a silent witness to what was once touched, lost, or remembered.



Jacobo Castellano
Sin Título (Huellas V), 2025
Printed from stapled and linen lined Wengué
Printed on Hahnemühle 350 gr. paper of 240 x 126 cm.
Edition of 7
JC—0040-i