Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In 2003, Mexican artist I aki Bonillas (born 1981) began to incorporate his grandfather's photographic archive into his own work. This volume assembles various theoretical and literary digressions by writers, philosophers and poets, on 20 of the works that Bonillas has generated through the archive.
Synopsis
In 2003, Mexican artist I aki Bonillas introduced the photographic archive belonging to his grandfather, Jos Rodr guez Plaza, into his work. Its content which, since that time, has undergone a wide range of operations, has permitted him to combine elements that seemed, a priori, incompatible: on the one hand, a personal, biographical narrative, consisting of anecdotes and rather personal character notes; and, on the other, a quasi-scientific sense of compilation and classification. Conceptualised as a kind of catalogue raisonn , J.R. Plaza Archive sets out to assemble a series of theoretical and literary digressions by a number of writers, philosophers, and poets, on 20 of the works that Bonillas has created from the material of this archive - a vast collection of images. The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller.