{"product_id":"cucurrucucu-cristina-de-middel-2016","title":"CUCURRUCUCÚ — Cristina de Middel, Editorial RM, 2016","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"666\"\u003eCristina de Middel’s \u003cem data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"141\"\u003eCucurrucucú\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"1060\"\u003ePublished by RM and edited with creative precision, this edition blurs the line between archive and fiction, between cultural critique and visual seduction. De Middel’s approach echoes her earlier \u003cem data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"876\"\u003eAfronauts\u003c\/em\u003e, twisting documentary language until it cracks open a new truth. Here, Mexico becomes both subject and performance—a country visualised through the leftovers of its own image economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1396\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1081\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1084\"\u003eTitle: Cucurrucucú\u003cbr data-start=\"1102\" data-end=\"1105\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Cristina de Middel\u003cbr data-start=\"1140\" data-end=\"1143\"\u003eDate: 2016\u003cbr data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1156\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1191\" data-end=\"1194\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Softcover\u003cbr data-start=\"1223\" data-end=\"1226\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 15 × 21\u003cbr data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1261\"\u003eLanguage: Bilingual (Spanish\/English)\u003cbr data-start=\"1298\" data-end=\"1301\"\u003ePages: Unpaginated\u003cbr data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1322\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: RM Verlag\u003cbr data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1354\"\u003eISBN: 978-84-16282-65-4\u003cbr data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1380\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52624169238866,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_2_3153f62c-41f0-4abd-b787-8b5d8c5bcca3.jpg?v=1770122583","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/cucurrucucu-cristina-de-middel-2016","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}