BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO: THE PREGNANT MOUNTAIN    Sep 10 - Oct 29, 2009

BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO: THE PREGNANT MOUNTAIN
September 10–October 29, 2009
Reception for the artist: September 10, 6-8pm
Performance: Bitter Destiny #2, October 29, 6-8pm

Robert Miller Gallery is pleased to present a survey exhibition of work made in the past decade by Cameroonian artist Barthélémy Toguo. This will be the artist’s debut at Robert Miller as well as the artist’s first major solo presentation in the United States. In 2004 Toguo was the subject of The Sick Opera, a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His work has been featured in recent group shows including Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, London (2008); De Schwitters à Toguo, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007); African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2005); and Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, which was organized jointly by, and travelled to, Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf (2004), The Hayward Gallery (2005), Centre Pompidou (2005) the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2006), and also travelled to Moderna Museet Stockholm (2006) and the Johannesburg Art Gallery (2007).

Barthélémy Toguo was born in 1967 in Cameroon. In 1993 after studying at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Abidjan, Ivory Coast he moved to Europe and began exhibiting and performing while finishing his studies at École Supérieure d'Art in Grenoble, France and Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. He currently lives and works in Paris and Bandjoun, Cameroon where he has founded Bandjoun Station, an arts center and residency program set to launch in November.