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''Until the lions produce their own historian, the story of the hunt will glorify only the hunter."
Chinua Achebe
14 January - 24 February 2012
Encyclopedic Cartoons
curated by Joas-Sebastian Nebe
25Bilder/Sekunde
M7, 11
68161 Mannheim
Germany
www.25bs.de
with:
NOK&T
SALLY GRIZZLE LARSON
BEATE GORDES
ALISON WILLIAMS
JOAS-SEBASTIAN NEBE
ELISABETH EBERLE
LUEDER SCHRUFF
KIM DOTTY HACHMANN
SAMIRA ESKANDAFAR
KISITO ASSANGNI
FANCYNOT
PAUL RASCHEJA
MARTY MCCUTCHEON
DEBBIE DOUEZ
The project’s idea is based on the structure of the reference book encyclopedia. This knowledge pool was created in the 18th century as a part of the Enlightenment. A variety of articles referring to different items should enable a deeper understanding of the world. Nowadays, knowledge concepts are developed by science and are subjected to a constant revision. It has become an utopia to provide a reference book for larger contexts of the mechanisms of the world. The Encyclopedic Cartoons Video Project presents an item for every letter of the alphabet – and a film to every item.
The word-list: A-ARCHITECTURE, B-BALLET , C-CHILDHOOD, D-DISGUST, E-EMINENT, F-FRUIT, G-GROWTH, H-HOSPITALITY, I-INFINITY, J-JOINT, K-KILL JOY, L-LEGS, M-MECHANICAL, N-NIGHT OUT, O-OLD, P-PARADISE, Q-QUILT, R-REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN, S-SUSTAINABILITY, T-TALK, U-UNCHAINED, V-VIOLENCE, W-WASTE, X-XENOPHOBIA, Y-YELP, Z-ZOOLOGY
10 - 30 January 2012
Time is Love.5 [show 1]
International Video Art Exhibition
Curated by Kisito Assangni
[.Box] Videoart Project Space
Via Federico Confalonieri 11
20124 Milan
Italy
www.dotbox.it
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
Vernissage:
10 - 11 January
18H30 - 21H00
Including
Adamo Macri (Canada) | Alicja Rogalska (Poland/UK) | Alysse Stepanian (Iran/USA) | Charlotte Merino (France) | ELASTIC Group (Italy) | Fernando Velasquez (Brazil) | Glenn Church (UK) | Grace Kim (USA) | Hermelinde Hergenhahn (Netherlands) | Hervé Penhoat (France) | Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg) | Isidora Ficovic (Serbia) | Kokou Ekouagou (Togo/China) | Larry Caveney (USA) | Laurent Fiévet (France) | Masha Yozefpolsky (Israel) | Michael Chang (Denmark) | Michael Douglas Hawk (Germany) | Nadiah Shazana (Maylasia/USA) | Neven Allanic (France) | Nina Backman (Finland) | Pier Giorgio de Pinto (Switzerland) & Franko B (UK) | Saliou Traoré (Burkina Faso/Netherlands) | Samba Fall (Senegal) | Simone Stoll (Germany) | Tristan Mory (France) | Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) | Wai Kit Lam (Hong Kong) | William Esdale (UK) | Xavier Gautier (France)
The new edition of Time is Love is based on the difficulties experienced by the earthmen to love. Simply love. Being in connection with the Other is not an easy thing in present times. We attend a fold of the individualities, a fainted solidarity and a blatant indifference for the Other. Love is a universal theme, within the reach of each. It comes along with the biggest human sufferings: the refusal, the solitude, the evil to be, the vengeance, the treason, the disappointment, the shame. The loving feelings recover the desert of our biggest troubles as our most beautiful enjoyments. Thirty selected artists venture on the thread of this tricky ambivalence. They deliver us without concession a range of complexities, bitternesses and passions generated by human relationships.
The selection operated by Kisito Assangni (artist and curator) states multiple sufferings, tearings and impossibilities of rapprochement. The presented bodies are in the heart of these individual and collective tightnesses. They are the main vectors passing on the notions of voracious passion, nostalgia and sensual slowness.
If Time is Love.5 raises a dark portrait of the human feelings, lights of hopes live and resist nevertheless. If today the time is synonymic money, Time is Love strives to avert the gaze towards more essential values so that the time can rhyme with that of the love, the gathering and the let go. Love as universal feeling extricates itself here from traditional clichés and from a timeless idealism. It is declined, scrutinized and translated with depth and intensity, just like the complexity of mankind.
Julie Crenn
10 - 18 November 2011
STILL FIGHTING
Video art from Africa
Curated by Kisito Assangni
MUSEO Ex-TERESA ARTE ACTUAL
Calle Licenciado Primo Verdad 8
MEXICO CITY 06010
MEXICO
Including:
N'doye Douts (Senegal/France)
Kokou Ekouagou (Togo/China)
Samba Fall (Senegal/Austria)
Michele Magema (D. Congo/France)
Saliou Traore (Burkina Faso/Netherlands)
Guy Wouete (Cameroon/Belgium)
In the framework of CologneOFF 2011
http://coffmediafest.org
31 October 2011
19:30 - 22:00
XTC - A FREE NIGHT OF EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Curated by Kisito Assangni
A project by Frank Gerlitzki
A group show that deals with concept of communication.
Artists:
Oreet Ashery (Israel/UK)
Benjamin Faga (USA)
Jenny Hyde (USA)
Poppy Jackson (UK)
Ane Lan (Norway)
Nathalie Mba Bikoro (Gabon/France)
Nathan Walker (UK)
Kai-Oi Jay Yung (China/UK)
XTC - Xiaozhou Transport Company is a virtual communication net connecting art institutes and art lovers around the world.
XTC is an open, experimental art project and a part of the SAT- Special Artistic Territory, a global idea allowing artistic creation in public space.
Studio 1.1
52a Redchurch street
London E2 7DJ4
www.studio1-1.co.uk
Tubes: Shoreditch Hight St/Liverpool street/Old St
http://xiaozhoutransportcompany.blog.com
www.frankgerlitzki.com
28 October - 6 November 2011
TIME IS LOVE.4 - show 6
International video art exhibition
Curated by Kisito Assangni
BILDETAGE
Barichgasse 6/1
1030 Vienna
Austria
www.bildetage.com
Opening: Friday 28th October 2011 - 19H00
With
Adamo Macri | Antti Savela | Eric Fong | Guy Wouete | Jennida Chase | Joas Nebe | Kika Nicolela | Kisito Assangni | Lane Lane | Lemeh42 | Martin Dege | Neil Howe | Osvaldo Cibils | Pauline Horovitz| Rachel Maclean
"Time is Love" is an international video art exhibition and a non-profit initiative. Time is Love annually presents work from international artists on the theme of love in hard times.
The project brings to the world a refreshing perspective on video art.
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
Saturday 1 october 2011
11.30pm - 2.30am
"At home with the Ludskis"
Rio Cinema
107 Kingsland High Street,
London E8 2PB
ARTISTS SO FAR:
Quilla Constance
Ryan Styles
Angel Rose & Josh Quinton
Bern Roche Farrelly
Sydney Southam
Rachel Maclean
Kisito Assangni
'At Home with the Ludskis' breaks away from the traditional art exhibition and the typical cinema going experience, to create something startling, fun and thought provoking. It embraces the post-contemporary with passion as it pushes aside the mundane.
Granny Ludski is the exhibition-maker behind the exhibition/screening/live performance event ‘At Home with the Ludskis’ - a series of new, unique, Avant Garde, plastic art, installation, live music, popcorn, intervention, performance, Total art, Post-contemporary, after party…
16 September 2011 - 16 June 2012
/Only pictures/
Vernissage 1/10 : Friday 16 september 2011
16 H - 21 H
Group show with
Kisito Assangni - Bobo Bâ - Susan Bottrell - Mateus Camacho - Leslie Greene -
Hocco - Barbara Kimmel - LioX - Héctor Olguin - Diego Porcel - Andrea Vamos
Galerie octObre
24 rue René Boulanger
75010 Paris
+33 608053406 galerie@octobre.org
www.octobre.org
2 july - 7 august 2011
" Human Factory ? " part2
Solo show
Espace apART
Xiao Zhou Cun
Xi Yuan Yi xiang 9
Guangzhou
China
www.frankgerlitzki.com
30 april 2011
" Time is Love.4 " show 5
International video art exhibition
curated by Kisito Assangni
with Osvaldo Cibils / Julien David / Kokou Ekouagou / Samira Eskandarfar / Eric Fong / Christy Gast / Rachel Maclean / Adamo Macri / Joas Nebe / Alex Pearl / Antonio Pinto / Ludovic Sauvage / Antti Savela / Philippe Van Wolputte
Espace apART
Xiao zhou cun
Xi yuan yi xiang 9
Guangzhou, China
6 - 8pm: Screening
www.frankgerlitzki.com
5 - 8 april 2011
" Fragments "
Video art collaboration project
with Kisito Assangni, Claus Collstrup, willy Darko, Per E riksson, Irina Gabiani, Niclas Hallberg, Ulf Kristiansen, Tom Oberg, Uma Ray, Brad Wise...
Arnot Art Museum
235 Lake street
Elmira , New York
www.arnotartmuseum.org
Curated by Marty McCutcheon, Michael Chang and Jan Kather
31 march - 2 april 2011
'' Still fighting ''
Video art from Africa
Curated by Kisito Assangni
In the framework of CologneOFF 2011
with N'doye Douts (Senegal/France) / Kokou Ekouagou (Togo/China) / Samba Fall (Senegal/Austria) / Michele Magema (D. Congo/France) / Saliou Traore (Burkina Faso/Netherlands) / Guy Wouete (Cameroon/Netherlands)
Arad Art Museum
Gheorghe Popa de Teius 2-4
Arad
Romania
&
17 - 19 march 2011
City Art Gallery
15 Chernyshevsky str.
Kharkov
Ukraine
www.mgallery.kharkov.ua
Chief Curator: Agricola de Cologne
17 March 2011
" Time is Love.4 " Special screening
International video art exhibition
curated by Kisito Assangni
On the occasion of the " Here is there, there. BXL-LDN " exhibition at Sint-Lukas Gallery, curated by Laurence Dujardyn and Tom Trevatt, including the artists Filip Gilissen (B) and Annie Davey (UK), Time is Love.4 is invited for a special screening.
Sint-Lukas Gallery
Sint-Lukas University College of Art & Design
Paleizenstraat 71
1030 Brussels
Belgium
www.sintlukas.be
Including Adamo Macri / Alex Pearl / Antonio Pinto / Christy Gast / Eric Fong / Fabienne Audeoud / Filip Gilissen / Kai Lossgott / Lane Last / Ludovic Sauvage / Martin Dege / Michele Magema / Neil Howe / Philippe Van Wolputte / Rachel Maclean / Samira Eskandarfar
6pm: Screening
7pm: Talk with Kisito Assangni introduced by Laurence Dujardyn
26 february 2011
" Time is Love.4 " show 2
International video art exhibition
Curated by Kisito Assangni
With Jennida Chase, Osvaldo Cibils, Kokou Ekouagou, Pauline Horovitz, Karen Landey, Lemeh42, Rachel Maclean, Adamo Macri, Joas Nebe, Kika Nicolela, Alex Pearl, Antti Savela, Guy Wouete.
Hexagon Space
1825 North Charles street
21202 Baltimore, MD
USA
7pm: Screening
8pm: Talk: Kisito Assangni with Shaina Craft, Director of Hexagon followed by an public discussion
9pm: Live soundtracks
www.hexagonspace.com
22 January 2011
" Time is love.4 " Show 1
International video art exhibition
curated by Kisito Assangni
with Vienne Chan, Jennida Chase, Osvaldo Cibils, Martin Dege, Kokou Ekouagou, Pauline Horovitz, Neil Howe, Karen Landey, Lemeh42, Rachel Maclean, Kika Nicolela, Antti Savela, Guy Wouete, Kisito Assangni.
Centro Arte Contemporanea Ticino
Via Tamaro 3
6500 Bellinzona
Switzerland
5.00 pm: Screening
6.00 pm: Lecture: Kisito Assangni with Mario Casanova, Director of CACT followed by a public discussion.
www.cacticino.net
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
14 January - 6 March 2011
" Pascal "
Group exhibition
with Alchen, Kisito Assangni, Joel Cadiou, Frederic Calmets, Bruce Clarke, Pierre Duclou, Dany Dufour, Meek Gichugu, Isabel Haye, Francoise Klein, Robert Radford, Hilary Rosen, Sylvie Vervaet.
Galerie Younique
63-65 rue Pascal
75013 Paris
www.galerieyounique.com
Curated by Mathias Bloch
22-23 july 2010
" Human Emotion Project "
Contemporary Artists using Film and video
Curated by Kisito Assangni & Alison Williams
With German Britch, Michael Chang, Russell Chartier, Luca Curci, Glenn Church, Danny Germansen, Alberto Guerreiro, Neil Howe, Joas Sebastien Nebe, Pekka Ruuska, 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 group show
With John Baldessari, Gary Hume, Tom Gauld, Paul McDevitt, Laurence Weiner, Quentin Blake, Kisito Assangni, Richard Long, Cameron Gray, Lynne Heller, Paul Coldwell, Joaquim Falco, Kathleen Mchugh, Nick Jensen, Hong Kwang Sung.
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London SW1Y5A
www.ica.org.uk
Friday 30 April 2010
6.30-11pm
" Dirty cop "
Solo video installation
The Old Police Station
114 Amersham Vale
London SE14 6LG
www.theoldpolicestation.org
30 April - 2 May 2010
" Time is Love.3 "
International Video Art Exhibition
Curated by Kisito Assangni
With Agricola de Cologne, Bill Balaskas, Michael Fortune, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Jeanne Stern, Cleantho Viana, Heini Aho, John Davis, Isidora Ficovic, Chloe Mazlo, Lantian Xie.
WERK-RAUM
58 Prinzenallee
13559 Berlin
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
9 April - 15 May 2010
" Black Symphony "
Solo exhibition
Galeria Kalao Arte
Heros 18
CP: 48009 Bilbao
Spain
www.kalaobilbao.com
12 - 23 April 2010
" KISITO "
Solo exhibition
Galerie Octobre
24 rue Rene Boulanger
75010 Paris
www.octobre.org
February 5 - April 2, 2010
'' Shifting Ground ''
Video art exhibition
with Aaron Bowles / Brian DeLevie / Christie Blizard / Katherine Sweetman / Kisito Assangni / Steve Jarvis / Tom Whitton / Richard Jochum / Larry Caveney / Jayanti Seiler / Keren Zaltz / B. Colby Jennings
Gallery II
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
&
Gallery Gray
115 South Riverfront
Minneapolis, USA
Curated by Dustin Price
17 February - 31 March 2010
" Silent Auction "
Group exhibition and auction
With Benjamin de Brousse, Bjorn Eriksen, Dulcie Dee, Francis Minien, Jaimee Todd, Kisito Assangni, Krisztina Asztales, Mari Yamagiwa, Roger Cummiskey, Tray Drumhann.
Monkdogz Gallery
52nd Street
New York, NY
www.monkdogz.com
Tuesday 26 January 2010
2 -10pm
" Time is love.2 "
International Video Art Exhibition
Curated by Kisito Assangni
with Michele Beck & Jorge Calvo, Jen-Kuang Chang, Wim Janssen, Robin Kiteley, Frederic Nakache, Hege Dons Samset, Angele Diabang, Sebastien Burdach, Sinasi Gunes, Bryan Lauch, Angelica Chio.
Studio 1.1 Gallery
57A Redchurch street
London E2 7DJ
www.studio1-1.co.uk
Wednesday 8 April 2009 at 2pm
'' Africa Now ''
Group exhibition 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 10 - February 28th, 2009
" Moab Video Project "
Video art show
With Angela Dufresne, Lydia Moyer, Zach Rochill, Rachel Mason, Hayley Silverman, Catherine Borg, Richard Haley, George Ferrandi, Kisito Assangni, Nick Lobo, Ronnie Bass, Christy Gast.
Locust Projects
105 NW 23 ST
Miami FL 33127 USA
Curated by Christy Gast
www.locustprojects.org
Saturday 8 November 2008
10am - 8pm
" Time is love.1 "
International Video Art Exhibition
Curated by Kisito Assangni
With Perry Bard, Jenny Hyde, Denis brun, Sachiko Hayashi, Petra Warrass, Ane Lan, Simon Woolham, Arthur Tuoto, Anders Weberg, Richard Sidey, Bree Yenalavitch, Joshua Sandler, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Jules Van Hulst, Mark Boswell.
Galerie Octobre
24 rue Rene boulanger
75010 Paris / Metro: Republique
&
Le Quarante-Huit
48, rue de la Fontaine au Roi
75011 Paris
May 5 - 16th, 2008
" L'Afrique Autrement "
Group exhibition
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 exhibition
Galerie Octobre
22, rue Réné Boulanger
75010 Paris
www.octobre.org
June 30 - august 30, 2007
" Loyal Rooftops "
Video art show
with Ralph Raab, Martin Sommer, Eric Pries, Kristoffer Ardena, Kisito Assangni, Orit Ben-Shirit, Chiara Passa, Martin Dege, Nooshin Farhid, Nina Backman, Lui Ke, Robert Hailton, Peter Borgers.
Galerie Loyal
Werner Hilpertstr 22
34117 Kassel, Germany
+49 5618045360
Curated by Martin Dege
March 14 - April 15, 2007
" MUTE "
Video art show
With Tim Noble, Jody Zellen, Brian Delevie, Rick Niebe, Kisito Assangni, Bertrand Secret, Zhenchen Liu, IEVA.
THINC Gallery
109 S. Warren Str
Syracuse, New York
Curated by Andrew Mount
Kisito Assangni goes beyond the form, in the form, in the colour, the light. His black paintings absorb the spectator in their spaces filled up of interior light.
Kisito does not give an interpretation of his work. He rather seeks a sensory fusion between the work and the spectator. The expression passes before the perfection, the unknown before the known, the interior before the exterior. Kisito seeks to avoid introducing into painting an element which is unknown to him, as the psychological interpretation of a form.
The colour is for him the best means of reaching the sensitivity. As Yves Klein underlined: " Never by the line one could create in painting a fourth, fifth or unspecified other dimension; only the colour can try to succeed this exploit. " (in Sur la monochromie).
Olivier Sultan
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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.
Colette HOLL |
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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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