BookTalk: Publishing As An Artistic Practice
This event takes place on Tuesday, January 31st from 12pm–1:00pm via Zoom and livestream on Youtube.
About the Talk:
Join us on Tuesday, January 31 on Zoom for a BookTalk by Claudia de la Torre.
Claudia de la Torre (1986) is a Mexican, Berlin-based artist who creates artworks situated at the intersection of printed media, conceptual publications, and installation. Using the basic concept of a book as her guide, de la Torre examines the structures and relationships of surface, form, and ideas. In 2011 de la Torre founded backbonebooks, an experimental publishing imprint that has published 78 artists’ books and editions and continues to produce work. De la Torre is also the director of the Artists’ Books Workshop in Berlin.
As part of Center for Book Arts ongoing BookTalk series—presentations related to the book arts curated and moderated by CBA Instructor Roni Gross.
About the Presenter:
Claudia de la Torre (1986) is a Mexican, Berlin-based artist who creates artworks situated at the intersection of printed media, conceptual publications, and installation. Using the basic concept of a book as her guide, de la Torre examines the structures and relationships of surface, form, and ideas. In 2011 de la Torre founded backbonebooks, an experimental publishing imprint that has published 78 artists’ books and editions and continues to produce work. De la Torre is also the director of the Artists’ Books Workshop in Berlin.
De la Torre holds a BA from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (2009). In 2010 she was the first Mexican artist to obtain the Frida Kahlo Scholarship for Women Artists granted by the DAAD, which allowed her to pursue an MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany.
She is an active member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and the ABC (Artists Books Cooperative). Through backbonebooks, she tables at numerous international art book fairs, and in 2018 she was the recipient of the Shannon Michael Cane Award for Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair.
Her work is collected by global institutions including the MoMA (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA (Barcelona), MiK museum in Würzbug (DE), Mumok (Vienna), Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie (Geneva), LACA, Los Angeles Contemporary Center (USA), Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen (Bremen), Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), among others. De la Torre has had exhibited at Miriam Gallery – NY (USA) New Order – Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg (DE), Artists’ Library 1989-2021- MACRO, Roma (IT), Imprimé, Intimité, Colletion – Galerie UQO, Quebec (CA), Glissements progressifs du récit – La Filature Mulhouse (FR), New Deals Regionale 19, among others. She has recently received various distinctions such as the Scholarship for Artistic Creation from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany (2022) and the Erasmus Scholarship for Teaching from ABW Split, Croatia.
