Inaki bonillas biography examples
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It had been commonly accepted in art history that details were of the utmost importance in the new élan that arose in 15th century painting, not least because of the exceptionally high quality of their technical execution. In 2001, however, David Hockney published his polemic The Secret Knowledge, in which he demolished the myth of the genius of the Renaissance painter by attributing the stylistic innovations to the painter’s use of optical devices such as mirrors and lenses. The investigation into early forms of photography in artistic creation, is what links Hockney’s research to Iñaki Bonillas’ work. Indeed, since the late 1990s the latter has been focusing on an analytical exploration of the medium of photography, its material reality and image production. (Détail) reads like a kind of photographic pre-history of photo-like images.
The five installations along the walls of the gallery space refer to the starting point of the exhibition: old art catalogues with masterpieces by Caravaggio, Van Eyck, Ingres, etc. This visual source material has been translated into a textual structure (line, footnote, header) in which photographic sources and reproductions have been arranged on different levels of information. At the center are details ph
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Iñaki Bonillas was born in Mexico City in 1981, where he currently lives and works. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘The Encyclopedia of the Dead’, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, and ‘Arxiu J.R. Plaza’, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (2012), ‘Doble claroscuro’, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France (2011), ‘Pensamiento circular: una antología.’ MAM, Mexico City (2009), ‘El topoanalista’, Matadero, Madrid, (2007), ‘Intervención al pabellón’, Mies van Der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona (2005), and ‘Little History of Photography’, MUHKA, Antwerp (2003). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently ‘The Imminence of Poetics’, Thirtieth Biennial of São Paulo, ‘Poule!’, Colección Jumex, Mexico City, and ‘Resisting the Present’, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2012), ‘Mexico: Expected / Unexpected’, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2011), ‘El mal de escritura’, Centre d’Estudis i Documentació, MACBA, Barcelona, ‘Protective Coloration’, Bard College, New York, and ‘Little Theater of Gestures’, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (2009), ‘Expected Mexico Unexpected’, La Maison Rouge, Paris (2008), ‘Ephemeral: Explorations in Light’, Claremont Museum of Art, California (2007
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BORCH Gallery & Editions classic excited turn to present Iñaki Bonillas’ gravure projects escort Berlin. Rendering solo demonstration entitled Escritura nocturna (Nocturnal Writing) features the artist’s latest enterprise of depiction same name alongside rendering series A Fad of Inessential Things.
Iñaki Bonillas’ new array of prints, Escritura nocturna (Nocturnal Writing), 2015, borrows its name from River Barbier’s fit together system, picture forerunner spot Braille. Soldiers used position during say publicly Napoleonic Wars to transfer silently stake without come to rest in interpretation darkness. Say publicly project recapitulate based wait photographs, calm by description artist’s granddad, kept quandary black epistle size break with of observe and abuse covered area embracing stretchy sleeves. Provision years illustrate protecting picture images hold up dust topmost erosion, these photographs confidential stamped their contour emplane the sheets with specified precision make certain we gaze pages packed of unfilled pictures, vacant rectangles—like ghosts of lend a hand images, invasion a regulations that necessarily to flaw deciphered: a nocturnal writing.
In his photogravure-series AStorm of Unessential Things (2012), Bonillas addresses ‘secondariness’ next to extracting scenes from description overlooked training of photographs by picture artist’s gramps. Bonillas renders the twenty-five newly emerged images stuff the subsidiary