JOAN-ANTONI TOLEDO
Valencia,(Spain) 1940 – Valencia, (Spain)1995 
He started studying fine arts in Valencia and Madrid, although he did not finish his studies. In 1964 he belonged to an active group of young Valencian artists who founded the Valencian branch of Estampa Popular, following the examples of Madrid, Seville and Córdoba. Silkscreen printing and work on paper featured in his output throughout his life. At the beginning of 1965 he exhibited with Rafael Solbes and Manuel Valdés in the sixteenth Salon de la Jeune Peinture in Paris, using the name Equipo Crónica, a group created by them at the end of the previous year, which he left voluntarily in 1966.
He did not present work again until 1976, when he reappeared as a member of the Col.lectiu d’Artistes Plàstics del País Valencià, which took part in the exhibition Els altres 75 anys de pintura valenciana. He also presented his first solo exhibition, at the Galeria Temps in Valencia, consisting of various works with Marilyn Monroe as the sole theme, providing a synthesis of his artistic and aesthetic presuppositions that linked up with Pop Art: “highbrow” dialetics and “lowbrow” culture, images from the mass media as sources of subject matter, an opaque image projector as an intermediate step in representation, serial production and blurring of images. These characteristics underwent few variations, with the exception of a growing interest in images that referred to everyday life, as was seen in his first solo exhibition in Madrid, presented in 1978.