Iñaki Bonillas
Libro de horas: Jueves [“Book of Hours: Thursday”], 2020
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Set of 8 digital prints, pigmented ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 paper (mounted on Palboard 3mm)
Overall measure: 126 x 93 cm x 3 cm
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Set of 8 digital prints, pigmented ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 paper (mounted on Palboard 3mm)
Overall measure: 126 x 93 cm x 3 cm
Ed. 1/3 + 1 APPhoto: Roberto RuizLibro de horas: Jueves [“Book of Hours: Thursday”], 2020. (Detail)
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Set of 8 digital prints, pigmented ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 paper (mounted on Palboard 3mm)
Overall measure: 126 x 93 cm x 3 cm
Ed. 1/3 + 1 APPhoto: Roberto RuizLibro de horas: Jueves [“Book of Hours: Thursday”], 2020. (Detail)
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Set of 8 digital prints, pigmented ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 paper (mounted on Palboard 3mm)
Overall measure: 126 x 93 cm x 3 cm
Ed. 1/3 + 1 APPhoto: Roberto RuizLibro de horas: Jueves [“Book of Hours: Thursday”], 2020. (Detail)
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Set of 8 digital prints, pigmented ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 paper (mounted on Palboard 3mm)
Overall measure: 126 x 93 cm x 3 cm
Ed. 1/3 + 1 APPhoto: Roberto RuizLibro de horas: Jueves [“Book of Hours: Thursday”], 2020. (Detail)
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Set of 8 digital prints, pigmented ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 paper (mounted on Palboard 3mm)
Overall measure: 126 x 93 cm x 3 cm
Ed. 1/3 + 1 APPhoto: Roberto RuizEstudio para dos espacios, 2019
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Set of 2. Silver gelatin print on fiber-based paper (Ilford, 190 gr)
46,4 x 58 cm each
1/5 + 2 APPhoto: Roberto RuizSecretos: linterna mágica (proyección), 2016
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20 slides proyection, cedar display structure Cedar display structure dimension: 38 x 54 x 108 cm
Ed. 5 + 5 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizSecretos: linterna mágica (proyección), 2016 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto RuizSecretos: linterna mágica (proyección), 2016 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto RuizSecretos: linterna mágica, 2016
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20 pigmented digital prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 305 gr
Framed: 29,5 x 43,5 cm each
Ed. 5 + 5 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizLos amantes áureos, 2016
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Wood and gold leaf
6 x 60 x 40 cm
Ed. 4/5 + 2 APPhoto: Roberto RuizSecretos: rayografías, 2016
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5 gelatin silver prints on fiber paper
50,8 x 40,6 cm each
Chest of drawers: 93 (h) x 65 x 63 cm
Unique
Photo: Roberto RuizSecretos: rayografías, 2016 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto RuizSecretos: rayografías, 2016 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto RuizSecretos: Huellas 1, 2016
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10 pigmented prints on 305 gr Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper
Framed: 80,5 x 102 cm each
Ed. 5 + 2 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizSecretos: Huellas 1, 2016 (detail)
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Secretos: Tela 1, 2017
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LightJet print on Fujiflex paper
120 x 152 cm
Ed. 5 + 2AP
Photo: Roberto RuizSecretos: Jardín 1, 2016 (detail)
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Secretos: Jardín 1, 2016
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4 pigmented prints on 305 gr Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper
30 x 45 cm each
Framed: 30,5 x 45,5 cm cada / each
Ed. 5 + 2AP
Photo: Roberto RuizEl Triunfo de la vida solitaria, 2017
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Digital print
58 x 43,5 cm
Framed: 58,7 x 44 cmEscritura nocturna, 2015
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20 photogravures on 300 gr Hahnemühle Bütten paper
58 x 42,5 cm cada each
Ed. 12 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizGeorge W. Rollins, 2015
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8 hand-colored, silver gelatin photographs (Baryta, 280 gr & Classic Crest, 130 gr) and 8 risograph prints with a silk-screen coat
Framed: 28 x 23 x 3 cm each
Ed. 12 + 3 AP
Photo: Oriol AribauGeorge W. Rollins, 2015 (detail)
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George W. Rollins, 2015 (detail)
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A Storm of Secondary Things, 2012
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Set of three photogravures
Variable dimensions
Framed
Ed. 12 + 4 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizA Storm of Secondary Things (03), 2012
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Photogravure
Framed: 49,5 x 42,3 cm
Ed. 12 + 4 APDetail: White, 2014
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Ink-jet prints, book pages & wooden shelf
Variable dimensions
Unique(Détail): Windows, 2013
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40 slide projection
Variable dimensions
Ed. 3
Photo credits: Roberto RuizPhoto: Roberto Ruiz(Détail): Windows, 2013 (detail)
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La idea del Norte: Fuga, 2014
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Set of 2 digital prints on paper mounted on dibond (Hahnemüle Photo Rag, 308 g)
173 x 110 cm each
Photo: Roberto RuizCibacromos, 2011
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Set of 8 Photocollages: Cibachromes on cotton paper, 60 x 50 cm each
Ed. 2 + 1PA
Installation view: "Archivo J. R. Plaza". Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2012
Photo: Pep HerreroCibacromos, 2011 (detail)
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Los Ojos, 2010
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12 gravure in one colour, printed on Hahnemuhle Butten 350 grm/m
Framed: 74,6 x 71,6 cm each
Ed. 9 + 4 AP
Installation view: "Archivo J. R. Plaza". Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2012
Photo: Pep HerreroLos Ojos (04), 2010
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Gravure in one colour, printed on Hahnemuhle Butten 350 grm/m
Framed: 74,6 x 71,6 cm
Ed. 9 + 4 APLos Ojos (11), 2010
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Gravure in one colour, printed on Hahnemuhle Butten 350 grm/m
Framed: 74,6 x 71,6 cm
Ed. 9 + 4 APTineidae, 2010
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20 B&W photograph, gelatin silver prints
Various formats
Ed. 1 + 1
Installation view: "Archivo J. R. Plaza". Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2012
Photo: Pep HerreroTineidae, 2010
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B&W photograph, gelatin silver print
Ed. 1 + 1Double Chiaroscuro, 2008-2010
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Mixed media installation, 5 parts
Ed. 2 + 1 AP
Installation view: "Archivo J. R. Plaza". Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2012
Photo: Pep HerreroA Sombra e o Brilho, 2007
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74 typewritten texts on paper
24 b/w kodaliths in lightplates
Unique
Installation view: "Little Theater of Gestures". Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 2009Martín Lunas, 2004
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12 digital translucent prints on light boxes, 50 x 50 x 15 cm each
Ed. 3
Installation view: "Archivo J. R. Plaza". Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2012
Photo: Pep HerreroTodas las fotografías verticales del archivo JR Plaza, 2004
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All vertical photographs from JR Plaza archive documented photographically, 28 x 22 cm each
Unique
Installation view: "Archivo J. R. Plaza". Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2012
Photo: Pep HerreroLittle History of Photography, 2003
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30 light boxes with 21 slides each (total 630), from JR Plaza archive
Unique
Installation view: "Archivo J. R. Plaza". Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2012
Photo: Pep HerreroBlueprint No. 21, 2003
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Heliographic print
300 x 240 cm
Unique
Photo: Galerie Greta MeertPhotographic Views from a Wall, 2002
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One photograph printed on 9 different types of photographic paper
50 x 60 cm each
Ed. 3 + 1AP
Photo: Galerie Greta MeertUntitled, 2002
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Work realized for the exhibition "The Air is Blue" Casa Barragan, Mexico City
Photograph hanged in an existing nail, 8 x 10 inches
Ed. 5Diez cámaras documentadas acústicamente, 1998
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Digital audio and 10 CD's
Variable dimensions
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Biography
Born in Mexico City, 1981
Lives and works in Mexico City
Despite not being a photographer, Iñaki Bonillas has been establishing a relationship with photography in his work since the late nineties. With a regard for the aesthetics and the conceptual practices of the sixties and seventies, the artist has been gradually isolating the constituent elements of photography and connecting them with other procedures. Trained in the subtleties of image processing while he worked as the assistant in a photographer’s studio, Bonillas saw his practice transformed by the inheritance of his grandfather’s photo archive. The J. R. Plaza Archive became the matrix of more than twenty works the artist produced between the years 2003 and 2016. But Bonilla’s work expands beyond this archive. Over the years he has suceeded in creating a very solid body of work that addresses the cultural history of photography to highlight the medium’s structural behavior and its relationship to the creation of identity.
Selected Texts
- 2018Manuel CirauquiSemejanza secreta. Iñaki Bonillas y el índice
- 2017Joana HurtadoRevista Concreta
- 2015Manuel CirauquiBonillas, Iñaki
- 2012Clément DiriéArt Press
- 2010Tom McDonoughArtForum
- 2008Carles GuerraExtraphotographic (bis)
- 2007María MineraMending Memories
- 2003Dieter Roelstraete and Iñaki BonillasPhotographic Views - Roma Publications
Exhibitions
- 03 December 2020 — 13 February 2021
- 06 October — 19 November 2014
- 29 September — 16 November 2017
Almost every style involved some sort of hair accessory or embellishment to really set it off.
- 01—28 February 2023
- 07 May — 29 July 2022
- 14 December 2016 — 03 January 2017
News
- 7 July 2022 — 8 June 2023
GROUP SHOW: BOMBAS GENS, VALENCIA
- 27 March — 15 August 2021
Group show: Jumex collection, Mexico City
- 26 November 2020 — 27 February 2021
GROUP SHOW: CAPC Bordeaux
- 21 September — 31 December 2020
ON LINE GROUP SHOW AT THE MOMA, NEW YORK
- 10 September — 23 December 2020
GROUP SHOW: espacio artkunstarte, MADRID
- 29 November 2019 — 31 March 2020
GROUP SHOW: ESPAC, MEXICO CITY