On the occasion of Index Art Book Fair, kurimanzutto presents Iñaki Bonillas: Interiors in the viewing room, as part of our From the Archive series. While Bonillas has been widely recognized since the 1990s for his analytical exploration of photography, this display celebrates the artist’s two-decade long commitment to the interiors of a complementary medium: books.
Whether examining the relationship between books and images, exploring books as a mechanism of communication and display, creating his own artists’ books, or employing books as reference materials, Bonillas’s enthusiasm originates inward, directed towards the artisanal production, materiality, and semiotics of books. Yet, the diverse selection of works and archival materials on view demonstrates that the language of books for Bonillas also expands beyond the interiority of the bound object.
Interiors will be complemented by a comprehensive selection of Bonillas’s artists’ books and editions in kurimanzutto’s bookstore.
Since the late 90’s, Iñaki Bonillas has established a relationship with photography in his work. With a regard for aesthetics and the conceptual practices of the 60’s and 70’s, Bonillas has been gradually isolating the elements that constitute, not photography but the photographic act –camera, film, shutter, darkroom practice, etc.–, to later connect them to diverse non-photographic procedures.
Kurimanzutto was first conceived in the late 1990s in New York by Mónica Manzutto, José Kuri and Gabriel Orozco. They imagined a gallery that could exist nomadically, adapting its form to the spaces needed by specific projects.
