iñaki bonillas
On the occasion of the annual Index Art Book Fair, hosted at kurimanzutto, Mexico City from January 18–21, 2024, the gallery opened Iñaki Bonillas: Interiors. The exhibition is part of kurimanzutto’s From the Archive program, a series that mines our archive to share narratives from artists and the gallery. While Bonillas has been widely recognized since the 1990s for his analytical exploration of photography, this display celebrated the artist’s two-decade long commitment to the interiors of a complementary medium: books.
When examining the relationship between books, images, and typography, exploring books as a technology of communication, 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 selection of artworks and archival materials exhibited demonstrates that for Bonillas, the language of books also extends beyond the interiority of the bound object.
Interiors was complemented by a comprehensive selection of Bonillas’s artists’ books and editions in kurimanzutto’s bookstore during Index Art Book Fair.
