Yani Pecanins.
Walter Nicolás: Handmade Baptism Invitation Card.
Mexico City: Yani Pecanins, 1985.
Folding card assemblage.
Closed: 5 13/16" x 5 13/16".
Good.
Minor edgewear and creasing. Green paper square featuring a print of a dog. Small tipped-in envelope has some minor toning and foxing. A paper bird has lost part of a wing and has minor creasing.
Scarce folding card assemblage by Yani Pecanins made in 1985 as an invitation to her godson's baptism. Covers marbled, presumably by hand, with tipped-in green paper square featuring a print of a dog. When opened, a red string becomes taut and displays small inserted figures of a boat, a bird, children, etc. The back "wall" has a collage of tipped-in colored stamps and a small envelope with name stamp to back which contains a hand-written folded paper note by Pecanins with red thread attached paper red tag bearing a rubber-stamp of a comb. The "floor" has a tipped-in glassine bag sealed with string and a plastic shell bearing a rubber-stamp of a mouse which contains two coins.
A handmade assemblage invitation, likely made in an extremely small quantity, for the baptism of Yani Pecanins' godson Walter Nicolás. Not pristine, but quite beautiful and Pecanins' care and thoughtfulness shines brightly.
Yani Pecanins and Gabriel Macotela co-founded Cocina Ediciones Mimeograficas, a Mexican publisher of artists' books, in the late 1970s. They also co-founded El Archivero, a bookstore gallery in Mexico City. Pecanins and Macotela are both pivotal figures in Mexican artists' books.
