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Metamorphosis at Dawn
Barthélémy TOGUO
Works on paper
57 x 76,5 cm
Lithograph, LanaRoyal, Ed. 22 of 36
This seriesentitled The World Examination was theCameroonian artist’s first attempt at lithography. Sinuous, hypnotic linessimultaneously reveal a zoomorphic universe and a celebration of life in allits forms. In these vibrantly coloured metamorphoses, hybrid creatures are seenin the process of turning into reptiles or trees. They bear witness to thetelluric force that characterizes all Barthélémy Toguo’s work.
Barthélémy TOGUO
Cameroon
Born in 1967
Born in M’Balmayo,Cameroon.
BarthélémyToguo began his studies at the Abidjan School of Fine Arts, Ivory Coast, andpursued his studies in Europe, first at the Grenoble’s Graduate School of Artand at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. He is Knight in the Order of Arts andLiterature, France. His first artistic apprenticeship was focused on sculptureand in Grenoble Toguo discovered photography and video, before his encounterwith German Realism in Düsseldorf, where he also started Performance Art. Healso practices drawing and water colour. He was the founder of the firstartistic institution in Cameroun, the Institute of Visual Arts of Bandjoun(1999).
BarthélémyToguo began his studies at the Abidjan School of Fine Arts, Ivory Coast, andpursued his studies in Europe, first at the Grenoble’s Graduate School of Artand at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. He is Knight in the Order of Arts andLiterature, France. His first artistic apprenticeship was focused on sculptureand in Grenoble Toguo discovered photography and video, before his encounterwith German Realism in Düsseldorf, where he also started Performance Art. Healso practices drawing and water colour. He was the founder of the firstartistic institution in Cameroun, the Institute of Visual Arts of Bandjoun(1999).
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Barthélémy TOGUO
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