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"Born in Juchitan, Mexico, Toledo’s only formal training consisted of a short period of study at the Graphic Workshop in Mexico City in 1958 and with Stanley Hayter in Paris in 1960. Toledo held his first solo exhibitions in Mexico City and Fort Worth, Texas in 1959. From 1960 to 1966 he traveled to Europe and continued exhibiting his work for which he received many awards. Toledo exhibited in 1974 and 1975 at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York, and recently at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Monterey as well as the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in the 1992 traveling exhibition, El hichizo de Oaxaca. Toldeo currently lives and works in Oaxaca. His surrealist work has been compared to that of Andre Masson but seems unconnected to either European Surrealism or to Mexican fantasy.
Francisco Toledo nació en Juchitán, Mexico, y sus únicos vínculos con un aprendizaje formal fueron el breve periodo que estudió en el Taller de Gráfica de la ciudad de México en 1958 y su trabajo con Stanley Hayter en Paris en 1960. Toledo realizó su primera exposición individual en Ciudad de México y en Fort Worth, Texas, en 1959. De 1960 a 1966 viajó a Europa y continuó exponiendo su obra, por la que recibió numerosos premios. Expuso en 1974 y 1975 en la Galeria Martha Jackson de Nueva York, y más recientemente en el Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey. En 1992 presentó en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de la capital mexicana la exposición itinerante El hechizo de Oaxaca. Toledo vive y trabaja actualmente en Oaxaca. Sus obras surrealistas han sido comparadas a las de André Masson, pero Toledo no parece estar conectado con el surrealismo europeo ni con la fantasía mexicana."Label Type
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"Francisco Toledo lived and studied in Europe before returning to his native Oaxaca, Mexico where he created the Instituto de Artes Graficas de Oaxaca (IAGO). Toledo's creativity has been expressed in pottery, sculpture, weaving, graphic arts, and paintings.
An epic myth seems to play out here – a man carrying a fish with a woman’s appendages through a hostile looking circle of birds, while walking on the backs of turtles."