Yani Pecanins, Haz de Gis

Mexico City, Cocina Ediciones Mimeográficas, 1982. Exuberant artists’ book consisting of 8 cardboard sheets with collages including mimeographed images, coloured strings, cut outs, fold outs, perforated holes, stickers, staples, translucent paper bags. Housed in a handmade cardboard cover, 22.5 x 22.5 cm, with stamped title, wax seal and green string on recto, and a stamped Cocina Edicione logo on recto.

Stamped Mexico 1982 and Yani Pecanins in red ink on first page, the last page presents publishers information with the edition size of 100 added in black marker. Haz de Gis is held in the collections of MUAC-UNAM Mexico City, MoMA New York, University of California, Staatlichen Museen Berlin. Scarce, very good copy. *Ediciones La Cocina was founded in the late 70s by artists Yani Pecanins and Gabriel Macotela, as one of the small publishers that proliferated around this time in Mexico. La Cocina, or 'the kitchen', referred to the homemade quality of their books and publications.