Olivier SULTAN, Art critic, Director of Musee des Arts Derniers, Paris
"Kisito ASSANGNI goes beyond the form, in the color, the light. His black painting 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 unknow 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 color 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 color can try to succeed this exploit. " ( in Sur la monochromie ).
The format of the monochrome as well as the thickness created by the collage of pieces of paperboard which highlight the color, contribute to express this need.
Since, a few years, Kisito reduced his monochrome to the black color alone, because it allows him better than the other to carry out his artistic program."
