CUCURRUCUCÚ — Cristina de Middel, Editorial RM, 2016

Cristina de Middel’s Cucurrucucú is a hybrid photobook and conceptual artifact that fuses vernacular Mexican imagery with the aesthetic codes of pulp cinema, violence, and myth-making. Built from photographs found at the La Lagunilla flea market in Mexico City in 2015, the book is a staged resurrection—part crime narrative, part visual poem, part cultural détournement. The man on the cover, bloodied and clutching a pistol, speaks from a comic-style speech bubble: “CUCURRUCUCÚ”, invoking the tragic bolero popularized by Tomás Méndez and Caetano Veloso.

Technical Sheet
Title: Cucurrucucú
Artist / Author: Cristina de Middel
Date: 2016
Technique / Printing Method: Offset
Medium / Materials: Softcover
Dimensions: approx. 15 × 21
Pages: Unpaginated
Language: Bilingual (Spanish/English)
Publisher: RM Verlag
ISBN: 9788416282654
Condition: NEW