MARIO RANGEL FAZ

México, D.F.: Cocina Ediciones Mimeográficas, 1982. (Yellow round sticker in verso of envelope). mimeographed pages, b/w plates, loose as issued, inside envelope with tipped-in illus. sheet in front, sig. SIGNED (INITIALS) AND DATED EDITION OF artists book by artist Mario Rangel Faz (México City 1956 - 2009) who mastered all the techniques –drawing, engraving and painting– and experimented with various supports and techniques throughout his artistic career. In 1976, Mario Rangel Faz became a founding member of "Grupo Suma", a Mexico City artist's collective that helped to shape contemporary Mexican art and protest. Inspired in part by the 1968 murder and imprisonment of hundreds of university students in the plaza of Tlatelolco, "Suma" was formed both to criticize Mexican systems of local and national government and to challenge the idea of art as a commodity for the wealthy.