ARTISTAS EN MÉXICO: 13. JOSÉ LUIS CUEVAS; 14. MARIANA LÁSCARIS; 15. FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ GORTÁZAR; 16. ROBERTO RÉBORA, SET.; Caja 4

México, D.F.: Taller Gráfica Bordes, 2008. b/w and color plates, illus., facs., cat., bio/chron., sigs., plus one lithograph, loose as issued, color pict. wrps., inside black cloth covered double-lid shell box with pull-out black ribbon, in cardboard slip cover. A fine press project with 4 books on 4 contemporary artists to be published every three months. 60 contemporary, living artists in Mexico are involved in the project. This set is a publication of the cultural center located in México City with the intent of providing and well printed, economical series on contemporary, living artists that includes images of 15 of their most representative works, a biography and critical texts. Each book in the special edition includes one signed, numbered lithograph in an edition of 50, plus images of 15 of their most representative works, a biography and critical texts. The publication is a project of the Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla, a remodeled 19th century electric train station, transformed into a multifaceted cultural space adapted for the practice, exhibition and development of contemporary and new technology artistic creations as well an historic place. Contents of this unique edition include: Issue no. 13 includes an essay by Louis Panabiere (1988) titled "José Luis Cuevas "Desencubridor" and an article titled "Descripción de José Luis Cuevas" by Octavio Paz and published in In/mediciones (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1979); no. 14 includes texts by Rafael A. Pérez y Pérez and the artist Láscaris (b. Greece, lives and works in México) on her sensual and feminist sculptures; no. 15 includes critical texts by Jaime Moreno Villarreal on the monumental projects and public art (fountains and memorials) created by González Gortazar (b. México 1942); and no. 16 dedicated to artist Rébora (b. México 1963) and his art, "which conjugates somehow with Orozco's caricature and with Soriano relentlessness regarding suffering children, that portrait abuse, evil and perversion"-p. 16. While the lithograph is an edition of 50, the book is an edition of 1000. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXTS.