Equipo Crónica

Equipo Crónica (Valencia, 1964 - 1981).
Untitled.1966.
Silkscreen, P.A. copy.
Signed, dated and justified by hand.
Measurements: 35 x 38 cm.
The Equipo Crónica, or Crónicas de la Realidad, was a group of Spanish painters active between 1964 and 1981. It was founded by Manolo Valdés, Juan Antonio Toledo, who soon left the group, and Rafael Solbes, whose death in 1981 put an end to the project. The historian and critic Tomás Llorens was also a member of the group. Equipo Crónica moved away from the prevailing informalism to cultivate a figurative painting, closely linked to pop-art. His style was a unique blend of realism, criticism, pop, pictorial quotations, anachronisms and bittersweet pastiches. There are works by Equipo Crónica in the IVAM in Valencia, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Juan March Foundation and the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, among others. In 2007 an exhibition dedicated to Equipo Crónica was organized at the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca.