Equipo Cronica
Equipo Cronica
1963-1981
Biography:
Chronic or Chronic Team of reality was a group of Spanish artists who was active between 1963 and 1981, when the latter in which he died Rafael Solbes. It was founded Manolo Valdes, Rafael Solbes and Juan Antonio Toledo, although the latter soon dissociated himself from the group.
Equipo Crónica art departed from informal to cultivate a figurative painting in the Pop Art trend. Critically analyzed the political situation in Spain and art history. It was inspired by classics like Picasso's Guernica or Las Meninas by Velazquez.
Their blend is unique, a little realistic, a little criticism, pretty pop with pictorial quotations, anachronisms and bittersweet pastiches. All this with enough enthusiasm, but little joy, as the shadow of Franco is present throughout his work. His paintings and serigraphs parodied royal portraits by Velázquez, who in those years were used in posters for the Ministry of Information and Tourism, Manuel Fraga. Opposite the grand and picturesque image of Spain to the Franco regime wanted to project, Equipo Crónica impacted on a more somber resorting to irony.
Equipo Crónica produced large-format paintings, sculptures and prints along with serial. There are outstanding examples of this group in the IVAM in Valencia and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
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