"My work is always a place where violence meets pleasure, where pleasure meets pain, where sexuality meets war, which in turn meets solitude. Nature is celebrated, while human beings are violated by the world." - Barthélémy Toguo
This book is the first monograph ever dedicated to one of the most important African artists of our time: Barthélémy Toguo, born in 1967 in Mbalmayo, Cameroon.
An engaged artist, Toguo is also at the heart of the Bandjoun Station project, a multidisciplinary artistic creation space that is autonomous and self-sufficient, offering educational activities, exhibitions, meetings, workshops, and artist residencies.
His works are now held by major international institutions including the MoMA, the Studio Museum of Harlem in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate Modern in London, and the Kunstsammlungen der Stadt in Düsseldorf.
This 280-page publication with 350 illustrations, bilingual in French/English, was produced in close collaboration with the artist and Galerie Lelong & Co., and includes an essay by Philippe Dagen, art historian, researcher, art critic, writer, and columnist for the newspaper Le Monde.
