Joan Antoni Toledo

JOAN ANTONI TOLEDO, (Valencia, 1940 - 1995).
Sense titol, 1986.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Signed and dated on the back.
Measurements: 80 x 110 cm; 86 x 106 cm (frame).

Founding member of Estampa Popular and of the group Equipo Crónica together with Rafael Solbes and Manolo Valdés, from which he broke away in 1968 after questioning the role of collective work as opposed to individual accomplishment. He was considered one of the most important exponents of the social realism of the sixties and seventies.
Toledo had an important artistic career as a solo artist, where he maintained the spirit of his beginnings in which images were distorted to create a cultural chronicle. He gave way to a more personal and calm painting, through which he showed his versatility and his way of adapting the language of Pop Art to the reality of that time.
For Toledo the seventies and early eighties would be the protagonists of a production centered on creations on paper, being a fundamental source of information that makes known his artistic legacy. Drawings, sketches, ideas captured on paper, were his main means of communication and experimentation.
Part of his work is housed in the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno and the Museo de Arte Reina Sofía.