|
Item Number: 135165
Title: Equipo Cronica
Author: Bozal, Valeriano (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788496763548
Description: Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes, 2015. 27cm., pbk., 312pp., 280 color illus. Exhibition catalogue. Spanish text. Summary: Equipo Crónica was set up in 1964 by three artists from Valencia, Rafael Solbes (1940-1981), Manuel Valdés (1942) and Juan Antonio Toledo (1940-1995), although the latter left the group a few months later. The duo remained active until 1981, the year Solbes died. Until the end, Equipo Crónica was a high-profile concern in contemporary Spanish art and a respected presence in artistic circles in France, Italy and Germany. Now, fifty years after the group was founded, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, with the generous sponsorship of BBK Fundazioa, presents the most extensive retrospective to date, covering Equipo Crónica's entire creative career from 1964 to 1981. The last substantial exhibition of their work, organized by IVAM in Valencia in 1989, subsequently travelled to Madrid's Queen Sofia National Art Centre Museum. Featuring major works from many collections both public and private, the exhibition gives pride of place to a large group on loan for the occasion from the IVAM. Nearly one hundred and fifty works are housed in two areas of the Museum: 74 paintings and sculptures in series are displayed in the BBK gallery and room 33 (on the second floor of the modern building) has 72 drawings, engravings, posters and original documents by Estampa Popular in Valencia, the group Solbes, Toledo and Valdés were members of before founding Equipo Crónica. Here the Equipo's habitual style can be seen in its formative stage. Art historians Tomàs Llorens Serra (who wrote the original short essays that provided theoretical backing for the group) and Boye Llorens Peters curate the exhibition. The catalogue published by the Museum to accompany the exhibition contains essays by the curators and historian Valeriano Bozal, and an exhaustive timeline put together by Michèle Dalmace, authoress of the catalogue raisonné of Equipo Crónica. Ms. Dalmace worked with the Museum back in 1988 on the catalogue of the group's graphic art and "multiples". Against a background of Pop and what came to be known as new figuration, Equipo Crónica made a name for itself thanks to a number of exhibitions in Paris in the 1960s. Their creative activity, deliberately linked to the social and political situation in Spain at the time, involved working as anonymous members of a team, using flat inks and producing series of images, many of which evoked other images drawn from the media, or critically appropriated references from history and art. What set the group slightly apart was its ability to conjure up in visual terms a particular era in Spanish history, one that roughly coincides with the final ten years of the Franco régime and the beginning of the transition to democracy.
We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available.
Please contact us if you need additional assistance.
P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US
Phone: 845-331-8519
Fax: 845-331-0852
Email: michael@artbooks.com