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Francisco Toledo
Francisco Toledo was born in 1940 in Oaxaca, Mexico. He attended the School of Fine Arts in his native city, then the Superior Center of Applied Arts of the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied graphic arts with Silva Santamaria. His social and cultural concerns led to his participation in the creation of the Art Library of the Oaxaca Institute of Graphic Arts. He also helped found the Oaxaca Museum of Contemporary Art, a library for the blind, a photography center and...
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Biography of Francisco Toledo
Francisco Toledo was born in 1940 in Oaxaca, Mexico. He attended the School of Fine Arts in his native city, then the Superior Center of Applied Arts of the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied graphic arts with Silva Santamaria. His social and cultural concerns led to his participation in the creation of the Art Library of the Oaxaca Institute of Graphic Arts. He also helped found the Oaxaca Museum of Contemporary Art, a library for the blind, a photography center and the Eduardo Mata Music Library. Francisco Toledo expresses his art through various media: pottery, ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, graphic art (engraving and lithography) and painting. In Paris, he worked for a time at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 (1965). Solo exhibitions have been held in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, the UK, Belgium, France, Japan, Sweden, the USA and many other countries. He is represented in major public and private collections worldwide. He has received numerous awards, both for his social commitment and for his art, which is imbued with his Mexican historical and mythological heritage.
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Globes et crabe sur...
Circa 1985 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Without
Self-portrait
Circa 1976 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Ed. Atelier Clot, Paris. Without
Unknown title II
Circa 1980 Original woodcut, signed in pencil by the artist. Without
Saltamontes con...
1976 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Daniel Gervis Publisher, Paris. Without
Unknown title I
Cica 1980 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Without
La Suma de la...
1980 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Without
Saltamontes
Circa 1996 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Without
La gallina
Date inconnue Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Without
Caballos
Circa 1975 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Without
Bull II
Circa 1973 Original etching and aquatint, signed in pencil by the artist. D. Gervis Ed, Paris. Without
The cart II
Circa 1973 Original etching, signed in pencil by the artist. D. Gervis Ed., Paris. Without
Bull
Circa 1973 Original etching and aquatint, signed in pencil by the artist. D. Gervis Ed, Paris. Dedicated proof. Without
The cart
Circa 1973 Original etching, signed in pencil by the artist. D. Gervis Ed., Paris. Without
Man with dog
Circa 1973 Original etching and aquatint, signed in pencil by the artist. D. Gervis Ed., Paris. Without
Man with rabbit
Circa 1973 Original etching, signed in pencil by the artist. D. Gervis Ed., Paris. WithoutCatalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
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To read from or about the artist :
* « Zoologia fantastica », Jorge Luis Borges, illustration de l'artiste, Galería Arvil, México, 1957 (nombreuses rééd.)* « Francisco Toledo: A retrospective of his graphic works », Emilio Baquedano et Elizabeth Steinberge, catalogue d'exposition, Ed. Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, México, 1988.
* « Francisco Toledo: Paintings and watercolors, 1960-1989 », E. J. Sullivan, catalogue d'exposition, Nohra Haime Gallery, 1990
* « Francisco Toledo », catalogue d'expositions, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Londres, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Ed. Turner, 2001
* « Francisco Toledo », catalogue d'expositions, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, México, Prisma Ed., 2003
* « Fabeltiere aux Oaxaca », Jorge Luis Borges, illustration de l'artiste, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau, 2001
* « Francisco Toledo: Contemporary Graphic Art », Sherry Corcoran, catalogue d'exposition, UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, 2006
Website :
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A tribute to Francisco Toledo
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Promoteur culturel engagé, Francisco Toledo, dont les œuvres ont été exposées dans les plus grandes capitales, défendait avec ferveur la cause indigène et celle de l’environnement. L'artiste est mort le 5 septembre 2019 des suites d’un cancer à Oaxaca de Juárez, capitale de son Etat natal du même nom ; il avait 79 ans. Incinéré, ses cendres ont été transférés au théâtre Macedonio Alcalá, dans le centre historique de la ville, pour que la population lui rende un dernier hommage. Des milliers de bougies, d’innombrables bouquets de fleurs, des disciples et de simples anonymes affluèrent à l’Institut des Arts Graphiques de Oaxaca où des chants traditionnels pleins de ferveur et d'amour résonnèrent. Le gouverneur de l'état décréta plusieurs jours de deuil. En son hommage, avec respect, cette fleur de l'oranger du Mexique.
"Je ne pense pas que l'art soit une planche de salut ou de réconfort. Les gens qui ont vu leurs proches disparaître ou se faire torturer ne croient ni en la poésie, ni à l'art." - Francisco Toledo
"Francisco Toledo, c'est l'art du chamanisme, dans lequel les gens sont transformés en bêtes et les animaux peuvent revêtir des caractéristiques humaines." - Christopher Goodwin
"Toledo n’est pas un folkloriste fantaisiste, mais un dessinateur dans la grande tradition. Ses gravures sont à comparer avec Goya out Ensor, et ses aquarelles élaborent toute une série de hiéroglyphes et de signes inventés aussi délicats et puissants que ceux de Klee." - Laura Cumming
"Nous avons résisté avec lui. Nous avons montré que la société civile avait une voix. Nous avons acheté des feuilles de bananier, fait des affiches. Nous étions les soldats pour représenter le peuple." - Guillermo Olguín, peintre de Oaxaca
"Son prestige est tel qu'il a pu sensibiliser la population et convaincre des particuliers et des associations de participer à ses croisades." - Rodolfo Ogarrio
"L'art est en deuil. Le maître Francisco Toledo est décédé. Ce grand peintre originaire d'Oaxaca était un gardien extraordinaire de notre culture, de nos coutumes, des traditions de notre peuple et un défenseur de l'environnement. " - Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, président mexicain
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No stamp made.Art movements
- + ATELIER 17 / 1927-1965 / Anton Prinner, Mauricio Lasansky, Jacques Lipchitz, Mark Rothko, etc.
- + ARTISTS OF TODAY / XXth century /
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