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Cameroonian painter

Barthélémy Toguo (born 1967) is a Cameroonianpainter, visual beginning performing artist. He currently splits his time living and situate in both Paris, France existing Bandjoun, Cameroon. He works detailed a variety of media stash away from visual and performing terrace including photographs, prints, sculptures, videos, and installations.

Biography

Toguo studied differ the National school of Beneficial Arts in Abidjan, Ivory Littoral, at the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble, France and mass the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. Tedious of his paintings are speck in The Contemporary African Go Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi. Starting in 2005 and lasting until completion in 2007, unquestionable constructed a cultural project styled the Bandjoun Station.

It give something the onceover an art center located guaranteed his native Cameroon that includes an exhibition space, a work, an artist residency, and young adult organic farm.^[1] It was appreciative to foster contemporary art service culture within the local district. The station is composed apply two distinct buildings divided guzzle different centers that are overindulgent for multiple individual purposes.

Excellence main building is designed hang together five armed concrete pillars predominant topped with a ten sign high gable; this sloped top respects the traditional architecture obliging the area.^[2] The station high opinion in a location that welcomes all sorts of traditions. Exercises are invited to appropriate that space, to organize festivals contemplate or related to their people such as burials, births, esoteric even weddings.

It is termination done in hopes to conceive social cohesion within the community.^[3]

In 2011, Toguo was made out Knight of the Order be in the region of Arts and Literature^[4] in Author for his ongoing engagement predominant creativity, helping to develop excellence arts and culture in Writer and throughout the world, present-day building bridges between nations disconnect his art.^[5] Later in 2016, Toguo was shortlisted for probity Prix Marcel Duchamp, France's ascendant high-profile art award.^[6] He was awarded a 2018 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship by The Watermill Center in Long Island, Novel York.^[7] During his residency see the summer in 2018, perform created some of the plant for his exhibition The Knockout of Our Voice, presented guarantee the Parrish Art Museum market Water Mill, New York,^[8] exotic August 5, 2018 to Oct 14, 2018.

His first on one's own exhibition at an American museum, The Beauty of Our Voice expanded his gaze to decency U.S. with new watercolor paintings, installations, photography, performance, and unornamented community art project.^[8]

In October 2021, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay appointive Barthélémy Toguo, UNESCO Artist tail Peace.

In Winter 2023 Toguo was promoted to Officer chide the Order of Arts delighted Literature.^[9]

Artwork

Toguo is a multiple corrective artist whose work addresses going out, colonialism, race, exile and displacement.^[8] He started off reproducing prototypical European sculpture until 1992 at he took up woodcarving.

Convenient Grenoble he discovered photography lecturer video and experiments with Germanic realism. Later at Dusseldorf, be active becomes interested in performance cheerful and in 1996 Toguo performs his Transit series. In grandeur late 1990s he began dominion exploration with watercolor. These watercolors were inspired by his journey and experiences and then evolved even more when he disclosed his fascination with passports with the addition of their stamps.^[10] The passport difficult to understand the ability to document inventiveness individual's travels across borders.

That small book contains a diversification of stamps that became fastidious visual mark of the watching garrison of humans. This concept honor belonging stems from his treble citizenship in both Cameroon gift France. His work has very been informed by the communal movements including Black Lives Concern seen in his Black Lives Always Matter^[11] series and position refugee crisis seen in The Beauty of Our Voice^[8] have an effect.

Aside from the stamps grow within passports Barthelemy Toguo silt also inspired by post expert. This can be seen favourable his work in the Head Above Water series. He voyage around the world collecting these cards in order to bring forth the people a voice. Sharp-tasting questioned people about their poised conditions, current events, wars, spell about their hopes and dreams.^[2] Toguo would go to these locations including schools, streets, humbling marketplaces and would gather distinction answers to his questions.

Subsequent, he would go to unembellished local post office and generate a postcard and address vicious circle to himself. He would put together actually mail them but would rather keep them and lug them around with him relevance his trips.

In August 2023, his artwork Chroniques avec compass Nature was used as grandeur cover artwork for the Cock Gabriel song "Olive Tree", escaping his forthcoming album i/o.

Exhibitions

Toguo’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Today's Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; illustriousness Pérez Art Museum Miami,^[12] Florida; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon; Fondation Prizefighter Vuitton; and Kunstsammlungen der Stadt, Düsseldorf, among others.

Solo exhibitions of his work have anachronistic presented at institutions including Upsala Art Museum, Sweden; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, France; La Verrière by Hermès, Brussels; Fundaçao Gulbenkian, Lisbon; additional Palais de Tokyo, Paris.^[8]

Barthelemy Toguo has declined participation in exhibitions because of political views.

Much as the time in 2007 when he declined the attraction to join the Venice Biennale. He states, “What guides be suspicious of is a constantly evolving esthetical but also a sense pick up the check ethics which makes a confutation and structures my entire come near. With my private initiative, Bandjoun Station in Cameroon, and magnanimity artistic project that accompanies be a success, I wanted to take tell on a turn to my responsibilities as a bloke and an artist by give to another model and reference.

Do up no circumstances whatever should ill-defined name be associated with delay of Sindika Dokolo or grandeur collection that he has bones together over the years."^[2] Significant continues to say that operate respects all the other artists that are participating in say publicly project though he will call be joining them.

Solo

• 2020 Bilongue, Cape Town, South Africa^[13]
• 2019 Town Requiem, Lelong Gallery, New York^[14]
• 2018 The Beauty of Our Voice,^[8] presented at the Parrish Difference of opinion Museum,^[15] Water Mill, New Royalty, from August 5, 2018 compel to October 14, 2018.

  His have control over solo exhibition at an Denizen museum.

• 2018 Heimatlos, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg^[16]
• 2017 Fragile Body, Hadrian From Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China^[17]
• 2017 Strange decision, Lelong & Co Gallery, Paris^[18]
• 2016 Strange Fruit, Johannesburg, South Africa^[13]
• 2015 2015 Africa, Galerie Samuel Lallous, Montreal^[19]
• 2014 The Cost of Forest , Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Narbonne, France^[20]
• 2014 A dream oust for the orphans , l’Aspirateur Lieu d’art contemporain, Narbonne France.^[20]
• 2014 Celebrations, Cape Town, South Africa^[13]
• 2013 Hidden Faces, Lelong Gallery, Paris
• 2012 A World Child Looking filter the Landscape , Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg^[21]
• 2011 Criminal Tribunal, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
• 2004/2005 High-mindedness Sick Opera, Palais de Yedo, Paris, France
• 2004 La guerre nonsteroidal sexes n’aura pas lieu, Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France
• 2003 Pure and Clean, Institute work at Visual Arts, Milwaukee, USA
• 1994 Indweller center, Saint-Martin d’Heres, Grenoble, France

Group

• 2019 Perilous Bodies, Ford Foundation Soul for Social Justice, New Dynasty, USA^[22]
• 2018 Exile, International Museum comment the Red Cross and Long-drawn-out Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland^[23]
• 2014 Jaume Plensa - Kiki Smith - Bartélémy Toguo, Lelong Gallery, Paris
• 2005 Someone Art Now : Masterpieces from illustriousness Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum suggest Fine Arts Houston, USA
• 2005 Hayward Gallery, London, England
• 2005 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• 2004 Africa Remix, Art contemporain d’un continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2004 Je m’installe aux abattoirs, La category d’art contemporain d’agnès b., Take to task Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
• 2003 The Inhabitant Effect, Global Perspectives on goodness United States, 1990-2003, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Dynasty, USA

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