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'' Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.''
Thomas Henry Huxley
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22 & 23 july 2010, 4-8pm
" Human Emotion Project "
Contemporary Artists using Film and video
Curated by Kisito Assangni & Alison Williams
With German Britch, Vienne Chan, Glenn Church, Debbie Douez, Danny Germansen, Alberto Guerreiro, Neil Howe, Adamo Macri, Joas Sebastien Nebe, Anders Weberg, Masha Yozefpolsky...
Galerie Younique
6 Avenue de la soeur Rosalie
75013 Paris
www.galerieyounique.com
Wednesday 16 june 2010, 5-10pm
" Going postal " One night show
With John Baldessari, Gary Hume, Tom Gauld, Paul McDevitt, Laurence Weiner, Quentin Blake, Kisito Assangni, Richard Long...
ICA ( Institute of Contemporary Arts )
The Mall
London SW1Y5A
www.ica.org.uk
April 30 - May 2, 2010
" Time is Love.3 " International video exhibition
Curated by Kisito Assangni
With Agricola de Cologne, Bill Balaskas, Michael Fortune, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Jeanne Stern, Cleantho Viana...
WERK-RAUM
58 Prinzenallee
13559 Berlin
April 9 - May 15, 2010
" Black Symphony ", Solo show
Galeria Kalao Arte
Heros 18
CP: 48009 Bilbao
Spain
www.kalaobilbao.com
April 12 - 23, 2010
" KISITO ", solo show
Galerie Octobre
24 rue Rene Boulanger
75010 Paris
www.octobre.org
February 5 - April 2, 2010
'' Shifting Ground '' Video exhibition
Gallery II
Washington State University
Pullman, WA &
Gallery Gray
115 South Riverfront
Minneapolis, USA
Curated by Dustin Price
Tuesday 26 January 2010
2 - 10pm
" Time is love.2 " International video exhibition
Curated by Kisito Assangni
with Michele Beck/Jorge Calvo, Jen-Kuang Chang, Wim Janssen, Robin Kiteley, Frederic Nakache, Hege Dons Samset...
Studio 1.1 Gallery
57A Redchurch street
London E2 7DJ
www.studio1-1.co.uk
Wednesday 8 April 2009 at 2pm
'' Africa Now '' Group show and AUCTION
with El Anatsui, Owusu Ankomah, Kisito Assangni, Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge, George Lilanga, Cyprien Tokoudagba, Jurgen Shadeberg...
BONHAMS
101 New Bond street
London W1S 1SR
Curated by Gilles PEPPIATT
January 15 - February 28th, 2009
" MVP " Video show
Locust Projects
105 NW 23 ST
Miami FL 33127 USA
Curated by Christy Gast
Saturday November 8th, 2008 10am to 8pm
" Time is love " International video festival
Curated by Kisito Assangni
With artists : Perry Bard ( USA ), Jenny Hyde ( USA ), Denis brun ( France ), Sachiko Hayashi ( Japan ), Alison Williams ( South Africa ), Petra Warrass ( Germany ), Ane Lan ( Norway ), Simon Woolham ( UK ), Arthur Tuoto ( Brasil ), Anders Weberg ( Sweden )...
Galerie Octobre
24 rue Rene boulanger
75010 Paris / Metro : republique
&
Le Quarante-Huit
48, rue de la Fontaine au Roi
75011 Paris
June 27 - july 20th, 2008
" Salon d'Art Contemporain Africain "
Espace Pierre Bergé
Grand Sablon 40
1000 Brussels, Belgium
May 5 - 16th, 2008
" L'Afrique Autrement "
With Malick Sidibé, Berry Bickle, Cheri Samba, Mary Durhol, Jürgen Schadeberg, Soly Cissé, Martial Verdier, Kisito Assangni.
DEBURAUX
51 rue Decamps
75116 Paris
AUCTIONS : May 16th, 2008
Drouot Richelieu / Salle 6
9 rue Drouot
75009 Paris
Contact : 01 44 49 95 70
Curated by Patrick Deburaux
January 16 - february 16th, 2008
" Do you know Kisito ? " Solo show
Galerie Octobre
22, rue Réné Boulanger
75010 Paris
Contact : 0608053406
www.octobre.org
June 30 - august 30 th, 2007
" Loyal Rooftops " video show
Galerie Loyal
Werner Hilpertstr 22
34117 Kassel, Germany
+49 5618045360
Curated by Martin Dege
March 14 - April 15, 2007
" MUTE " Video show
With Tim Noble, Jody Zellen, Brian Delevie, Rick Niebe & Kisito Assangni
THINC Gallery
109 S. Warren Str
Syracuse, New York
Curated by Andrew Mount
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When you look at Kisito Assangni's paintings you don't know anymore where you are : inside or outside the picture ; maybe an actor in a movie of depth.
Kisito's paintings seem to produce light, to project light. The paintings give light to an infinite space : that of our interior self, and our past existence.
The black canvas and corrugated surfaces construct our desire for gentleness and beauty.
We aren't trapped by the beauty : the heat of his laser-like red shakes us into a well-being. This red awakens and stimulates our reflection armes us for our path. When you look at a Kisito's picture...
Fire of joy or forest fire, spirituality or violence, homage to the transmission of knowledge lighting the future, Kisito's pictures check and transform us, as they delve into the light and give it for us to see.
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Kisito ASSANGNI has often likened the production of an artist to the keeping of a personal diary. In his case, the " diary " has been the most powerful, prolific and astonishing in nature.It is so interesting because it somehow ranks the artist's work with the dream of a poet.
The painting is largely influenced by a recurring composition of placing conceptual rather than realistic forms into the lushness of unnatural setting. There are, perhaps, for the viewer, the promise of more surprises and more sheer delight as Kisito continues his daring creative work in the succeeding pieces.
To come close to the creativity of an artist like Kisito ASSANGNI allows us to become part of a very special and exciting moment in art. Such an artist seems proof of the undefeatable spirit and power of love to burst through all boundaries - to know the meaning of freedom and challenge.
One might ask, in the end, if an African artist is trained in Europe, or America, and lives there and does not consciously refer to african origin or traditions in his/her work, is the african presence detectable to the trained observer ? Yes is emphatic for an answer.
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