PASEO DE GRACIA: YANI PECANINS: ARTE GRÁFICO, COLLAGE, LIBROS DE ARTISTA

México, D.F.: Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, 2014. 1 fldg. folio (46 x 28 cm. unfolded) with title and tipped in cut-out figures, 1 folio fldg. accordion style, (48 x 9.5 cm unfolded) with b/w plate and section of newspaper clip tipped-in; 1 small chapbook, [8] pages (12 cm.) with color plates, string bound with tipped-in cut-out color plate in front; 1 glossy cardboard folio fldg. accordion style, (57 x 13.5 cm unfolded) with color plates and tipped-in cut-out color plate as closure; 2 glossy cardboard folios (25 cm.) with color plate; 3 folios fldg. (letter size) with tipped-in cut-out color plate in verso; 1 glossy cardboard folio (12 x 17 cm.) with color plate; all inserted in gray four flapped folder with red string as closure OCLC: 898479520. Through her art-objects, artist Yani Pecanins pays tribute to her mother, the noted gallery owner Teresa Pecanins and her sisters Ana María and Montserrat. The exhibition "Paseo de Gracia" comprises small boxes, various objects and short texts, along with art works in mixed media collages, artist and art books, all related to the artist's most intimate memories, family history in Barcelona and Mexico and her interior universe. "Each one of the pieces of this exhibition are part of a ritual of farewell that the artist shares with the spectator without having to explain anything else." (Our translation) --Armando Sáenz Carrillo. The artist was award the FONCA (a national endowment for the arts) award which resulted in this exhibition.