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          The nomadic artist has spent years cultivating his craft.

        1. The nomadic artist has spent years cultivating his craft.
        2. Barthélémy Toguo is a traveller, crossing boundaries of all sorts as his vision evolves.
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        5. “Barthélémy Toguo is a Cameroonian painter, visual and performing artist born in He currently splits his time living and working in both Paris.

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          Biography

          Barthélémy Toguo, born in 1967 in Cameroon, lives and works today in Paris and Bandjoun, Cameroon.

          He began his studies at the Abidjan School of Fine Arts, Côte d’Ivoire. His artistic apprenticeship at first involved his fashioning copies of classic European sculptures, until he took part in a workshop in 1992 devoted to woodcarving, an event that enabled him to radically modify his approach.

          He decided then to continue his studies in France in order to experience a different type of instruction and enjoy greater liberty in his personal creative research.

          A comprehensive survey of the French Cameroonian artist's multimedia explorations of colonialism and displacement French Cameroonian artist Barthélémy Toguo.

          He took classes at Grenoble’s Graduate School of Art and later enrolled in Klaus Rinke’s studio at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf.

          It was in Grenoble that Toguo discovered photography and video, before his encounter with “German realism” in Düsseldorf.

          He also became interested in performance art at this time. In 1996, for exa