BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Presents Barthélémy Toguo – Heart Beat
By Megan • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)“GATESHEAD, UK.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents Cameroon-born artist Barthélémy Toguo’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Heart Beat opens in the Ground Floor gallery space on Tuesday 29 January.
Barthélémy Toguo is a multi-disciplinary artist working in drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics and performance. The artist will be in residency at BALTIC during December 2007 and January 2008 . As part of the residency process, Toguo will collaborate with Fine Art students from Northumbria University to produce new work. The exhibition will comment on the use, abuse and excess of information in the era of global exchange. The artist and students will ‘censor’ pages from a UK daily broadsheet newspaper by deleting sections of text, using black marker pens, leaving only the images. This ‘democratic’ action will create a new ‘face’ for the newspaper page, allowing for new readings and asking us to question the information we receive.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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