Barthélémy Toguo - Kingdom of faith

Barthélémy Toguo - Kingdom of faith : Lockdown Selfportrait 10, 2020, Lavis, encre et pastel gras sur papier, 35 x 25 cm, Courtesy Bandjoun Station, Cameroun & Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris.    Barthélémy Toguo - Kingdom of faith : Talking to the Moon I, 2013 Aquarelle sur papier marouflé sur toile 250 x 240 cm Courtesy Bandjoun Station, Cameroun & Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris    Barthélémy Toguo - Kingdom of faith : ©Olivier Calvel, ©ADAGP, Paris, 2021    Barthélémy Toguo - Kingdom of faith : ©Olivier Calvel, ©ADAGP, Paris, 2021   


The exhibition


At the Malmaison art center, a room guarded by two imposing skull figures concentrates Toguo's own eclectic style. The floor, littered with banana packing boxes, is trodden with an uncertain step, evoking by destabilization the conditions of the workers in the plantations. We find stamps and stamps that the artist declines since his beginnings in 1996, ironies of the administrative barriers of The New World Climax, and the news in watercolors, impregnated in the work as much as our memories. The soaked papers, cherished for their rendering of forms by the artist, invite in another space to a crossing of plant, animal or human worlds, dissipating their borders.

Excerpt from Camille Renault's article published in the N°98 of Art Absolument.

And also : Desire for humanity. The Universe of Barthélémy Toguo. Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris. From April 6 to December 5, 2021.
Barthélémy Toguo. Sharing. Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris. From September 9 to October 23, 2021.

When


26/07/2021 - 14/11/2021
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