展览·HdM 伦敦 | 巴尔德莱米·图果（ Barthélémy Toguo）个展《人之天性》

名称：巴尔德莱米·图果 | 人之天性

策展人：Chris Spring

开幕时间：2019 年 6 月 13 日（周四）18:00-20:00

展览时间：2019 年 6 月 13 日 - 2019 年 8 月 23 日

展览地点：HdM 伦敦 | 42 Conduit Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2YH

HdM 画廊很荣幸地推出艺术家巴尔德莱米·图果(Barthélémy Toguo)的个展——《人之天性》，由 Christ Spring 担任策展人。此次展览是图果在伦敦的首次个展，意图呈现非洲传统艺术家在当代艺术实践中展现出的丰富性及他们在国际舞台中的重要性。此次个展将于 6 月 13 日开幕，持续至 8 月 23 日。

关于展览

巴尔德莱米·图果(Barthélémy Toguo)是一位旅行者，在不断的跨越界限的过程中完成自我的发展。尽管图果曾到过许多的地方，但他不仅是身躯在旅行，更是在尝试跨越人类心中构建的各种障碍、壁垒和边界。他尝试用水彩、摄影、雕塑、装置、戏剧和行为表演向自我和观众去表达旅途中所遇到的人类伟大的胜利和悲剧。

—— Chris Spring（ 策展人）

图果作品中具有极强的辨识度和感染力，使人过目难忘。但除了自身的视觉艺术实践，他为家乡喀麦隆的艺术和文化发展做出的卓越贡献更在于创办了 Bandjoun Station 文化中心——这个致力于艺术、教育和农业研究的非盈利机构座落在一座利用二十一世纪的技术建造但向古典建筑风格审美致敬的建筑之内。此次于 HdM GALLERY 的个展挑衅性地名为《人之天性》，并由伦敦大英博物馆的非洲文化专家 Chris Spring 博士担任策展人。图果希望观众不仅关注到过去十年里其作品中的美学演变，更能发现引导他前进的信条始终未变：图果《易碎之躯》系列的大型瓷瓶作品是此次英国首展的重要组成部分——作品在中国景德镇制作完成，每个瓷瓶的面上都绘有代表不同生物的图饰，瓶口上都坐落着瓷制的艺术家肖像。图果不仅希望通过这些大型瓷瓶去映射中非之间当下正在发生的种种联系和中国在艺术领域的伟大成就，《易碎之躯》中的瓷制非洲面孔肖像提醒着观者——非洲亦有独立的思考能力去创造艺术，成为人类现代化进程的贡献者。

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巴尔德莱米·图果，《易碎之躯  No.1》，瓷器，直径150 cm ，2017

除《易碎之躯》的瓷瓶雕塑作品外，此次展览还会呈现图果一系列关于人性主题的纸本水彩作品。

巴尔德莱米·图果(Barthélémy Toguo)，1967 年生于喀麦隆天主教姆巴尔马约教区，现生活和工作在巴黎和喀麦隆之间，在 2011 年被授予了艺术与文学骑士勋章。图果曾参加 2015 年第 56 届威尼斯双年展个人馆，获 2016 年杜尚奖提名并在巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心展出。他的作品国际多个重要美术馆中展出和收藏，如：纽约现代艺术博物馆、伦敦泰特现代美术馆、巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心、里昂现代艺术博物馆、巴黎路易威登基金会、新加坡公园景观博物馆和乌克兰基辅平丘克艺术中心等。作为一位社会活动家，Toguo 于 2008 年在喀麦隆成立了 Bandjoun Station 非盈利艺术中心。

Exhibition: Barthélémy Toguo | Human Nature

Curator: Chris Spring

Opening: 2019.06.13 (Thur.), 18:00 - 20:00

Duration: 2019.06.13 - 2019.08.23

Location: HdM London | 42 Conduit Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2YH

HdM GALLERY London is pleased to present ‘Human Nature’, a solo show by artist Barthélémy Toguo and curated by Chris Spring. It will be Barthélémy Toguo’s first solo show in London, and highlights a key player in the unfolding richness of contemporary visual practice by artists of African heritage, increasingly valued and sought after in the international arena. ‘Human Nature’ will open on June 13th and last till August 23rd.

About the Exhibiton

Barthélémy Toguo is a traveller, crossing boundaries of all sorts as his vision evolves. His travels are not just physical – though he has been to many places – but are also concerned with crossing the various borders, barriers and boundaries that human beings construct in their minds. He uses watercolour painting, photography, sculpture, installation, theatre and performance to try to explain to himself and to his audience the spectrum of human triumphs and tragedies he has encountered. 

—— Chris Spring, Curator

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Barthelemy Toguo, Corporeal Blue, acrylic and watercolour on canvas, 100x100cm, 2018

Once met, never forgotten, Toguo has made a remarkable contribution to this development, both through his own visual art practice and the creation of the extraordinary Bandjoun Station in his native Cameroon, a cultural centre which combines art, education and agriculture in and around a building which utilises the technological wizardry of the 21st century while paying homage to ancient architectural styles. Toguo’s new HdM show, curated by former British Museum Africa specialist, Dr. Chris Spring, and provocatively titled ‘Human Nature’, helps us not only to see how his aesthetic has evolved over the past decade - but also how his guiding principles have remained the same:

A key feature of the show –  exhibited in the UK for the first time - is Toguo’s ‘Fragile Bodies’ series of large, porcelain vessels which he created in Jingzhen, China. Each is painted with representations of different creatures and topped with a cast of the artist’s own head. While Toguo’s vessels acknowledge the ongoing connections between Africa and China and the supreme achievements of China within the arts, the African heads on the ‘Fragile Bodies’ remind us that it was in Africa that the capacity to think symbolically, to create art and to become modern humans evolved.  

Alongside these sculptural works Toguo will show a series of his celebrated watercolour paintings on the subject of human nature.

Was born in M’Balmayo, Cameroon, in 1967. He currently lives and works between Paris, France and Bandjoun, Cameroon. Toguo was shortlisted for the 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp and was included in the group exhibition of finalists at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He has participated in numerous international biennials, including the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). He was recently featured in Intriguing Uncertainties, The Parkview Museum Singapore, travelling to Beijing; Art/Afrique Le Nouvel Atelier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; and Fragile State, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine. In 2011, Toguo was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature in France. His works are included in public collections worldwide, including the Tate Modern, England where the work ‘Purification’ (2012) is on display now; Centre Pompidou, France; Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, France; Studio Museum Harlem, New York; and MoMA, New York. Both artist and activist, Toguo also founded a non-profit art centre ‘Bandjoun Station’ in 2008 in Cameroon.

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