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Wild Hopes
Barthélémy TOGUO
Works on paper
81 x 121,5 cm
Lithograph, BFK Rives, ed. 22 of 36
Inthe Transit performance seriesstarted in 1996, Barthélémy Toguo reflects on places of transit emphasizingrelationships between the individual, administration, immigrant and local. Hisintimidating approach confronts conventional security rules, playing with theappearance. Humorous and agitator, he frankly exposes political issues such as inhis performance Pure and Clean, wherehe hand washes two US flags so as to clean up its dreadful actions abroad. In The New World Climax wooden sculptureseries he develops the merchandise and human flows through the use of largescale stamps. In the 1990’s he made watercolour series such as Baptism, paying tribute to the humanbody. His interests in performing artsled him to create theatrical installations in the 2000 Lyon biennial (UnfinishedTheater)and at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), in 2004 (The Sick Opera).
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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