Barthélémy Toguo, Tied To You, 2023, Ink on canvas 200x200cm Barthélémy Toguo / Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. & Bandjoun Station
Galerie Lelong & Co. is delighted to announce its sixth exhibition with French-Cameroonian artist Barthélemy Toguo.
For "Water is a Right", Barthélémy Toguo has “created a dream” in which he invites viewers to discover new works (paintings, sculptures, ceramics and an amphora) conceived for the exhibition as part of a residency at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, a realm where fish and birds live side by side.
Water “is an invaluable and vital element that invites us to dream and gives us life”, says the artist, concerned that this resource is cruelly lacking in several parts of the planet. Taking stock of the current problem of the shortage of drinking water in many parts of the world, Toguo decided to transform the exhibition space into an aquatic environment.
Barthélémy Toguo was born in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, in 1967 and his works are present in major private and public institutions in the UK, Europe and the USA. He recently presented a temporary installation under the Louvre’s Pyramid in Paris.
