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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Turgo Bastien
Spirits Speak.

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Exhibition at Nova University
2012

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Turgo Bastien
Spirits Speak.

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Mixed Media on Wood
Mother Of All.

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Turgo Bastien at Work.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014

Paint By Turgo Bastien.

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Turgo Bastien
Mixed Media On Canvas

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Turgo Bastien
Another Call From Africa
Mixed Media On Canvas
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turgoart: boynton beach, Fl., United States; Turgo Bastien belongs to that generation of artists who arrived in South Florida in the 1980s and who had already established themselves in their countries. However, his experience in the U.S. led him in a direction entirely different from his contemporaries. What is different in Turgo Bastien is his singular approach to metaphor and the conscius look for new direction and language which could inscribe his identity in a contemporary expression. Turgo tells a story that rises as counter discourse to the story of mainstream art in which other cultures have been treated as marginal. Turgo sees his own marginality and unbearable cultural shock of an individual moving from one part of the world to another. The work must find another identity or recover what has been lost before it sinks into nothingness. But this is not simple. His paintings derive frm the rythmical space, filling patterns of the mask and the multidimensional state of mind of those from his background. His pictures are not mere patterns but images nd their forms whether painted or sculpted, invest the surface with

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