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Saturday 8 November 2008 10am - 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
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Le Quarante-Huit
48, rue de la Fontaine au Roi
75011 Paris
September 18 - october 24th, 2008
" L'Afrique Autrement " Group Show
Centre Jacques Brel
7 place de la gare
57100 Thionville, France
Contact : 03 82 56 12 43
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.
Emmanuel O. ODITA |
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