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Barthélémy Toguo

BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO

If Not Now, When? Galerie Lelong 3 September–10 October 2020 13 Rue de Téhéran, Paris
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Barthélémy Toguo is a multidisciplinary artist known for his paintings but also for his captivating installations. One of the most emblematic of his works consists of an assembly of stamps made from sculpted wood and the prints they produce, the slogans of which mostly evoke the question of emigration/immigration and the free circulation of goods and people. An important grouping of these stamps, Urban Requiem, was exhibited at the Venice Biennale organised by Okwui Enwezor in 2015. For this new exhibition in the bookshop at Galerie Lelong & Co., we will present the prints from his new stamps, mostly focused on denouncing racial discrimination in the United States and produced in New York in spring 2019. In parallel, we will present the prints from the series of etchings started in 2019, all engraved in blue and whose names evoke the rivers of Cameroon, the artist’s home country.

The exhibition at the bookshop coincides with the presentation at the Centre Pompidou of recent acquisitions from around 60 artists ‘from the South’ (Africa, Middle-East, Asia, Latin America), including a large installation by the artist in the hall, which will open on 29 July under the title Global(e) Resistance. The work of Barthélémy Toguo will also be presented in the autumn during the Biennales of Busan (South Korea) and Dak’art (Senegal). A one-man show, Désir d’humanité, les univers de Barthélémy Toguo, will be organised at the Quai Branly museum from 6 April to 5 December 2001, where the Fondation Dapper has been given carte blanche to coordinate ancient works with those of this Cameroonian artist, as part of the programme of the 2020 Africa Season.

In preparation, an important monograph on Barthélémy Toguo, with a text by Philippe Dagen, to be published by Editions Skira.

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About the Artist

Barthélémy Toguo was born in 1967 in Cameroon. He lives and works between Bandjoun and Paris. Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Abidjan, Ivory Cost. Ecole Supérieure d’Arts, Grenoble, France. Art Academy, Düsseldorf, Germany. Multidisciplinary artist, his works is exhibited worldwide. In 2008, he founded Bandjoun Station, an artist residence focusing on artistic exchanges located in the highlands of Western Cameroon.

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About the Gallery
Galerie Lelong is located in Paris and New York. It was founded by Jacques Dupin, Daniel Lelong and Jean Frémon.

The Paris gallery has been exhibiting recent works from artists of international standing since 1981. The 1980s were notable for artists who went on to become household names, including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Rebeyrolle, Pierre Alechinsky, but also for the next generation of artists: Konrad Klapheck, Jan Dibbets, Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Nicola De Maria and Jan Voss.

In the 1990s, the gallery hosted artists who represented major movements in contemporary art: Sean Scully, Günther Förg, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Antonio Saura. The gallery also increased international recognition of the work of Ana Mendieta.

Since the turn of the century, Galerie Lelong has accentuated the geographical and expressive diversity of its artists: from sculpture and objects by Jaume Plensa, David Nash, Wolfgang Laib, Kiki Smith, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan to installations by Barthélémy Toguo and Lin Tianmiao, without forgetting painting, namely David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Kate Shepherd, Nalini Malani, Nancy Spero, Juan Uslé, Leon Kossoff.

Galerie Lelong has a large publishing department which produces and distributes engravings, lithographs, digital prints and multiple objects, and collates these works in catalogues raisonnés.

It produces monumental sculptures to order for public spaces and private clients.

The gallery is present at the leading international contemporary art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Fiac Paris, Frieze London, Frieze New York, Arco Madrid, Art Brussels, Expo Chicago...).

The directors of the gallery are Jean Frémon, Daniel Lelong and Patrice Cotensin in Paris and Mary Sabbatino in New York.
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Galerie Lelong contemporary art gallery in 13 Rue de Teheran Paris France
Galerie Lelong
13 rue de Téhéran, Paris, France
+33 145 631 319
http://www.galerie-lelong.com

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Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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