A new space for contemporary art opens with two exhibitions: the group show “One for all: identity and structure” and the solo exhibition by Jack Kabangu “The Sound of Painting”

LIS10 Gallery opens its doors in the heart of Arezzo as a new place dedicated to contemporary artistic research, to the dialogue between languages and cultures, and to the enhancement of aesthetic practices capable of reading the present with depth and vision. The gallery is born with the intention of becoming an open platform, a critical laboratory, and an exhibition space where tradition and contemporaneity meet.

To celebrate its inauguration, LIS10 Gallery presents two inaugural exhibitions, conceived as a programmatic manifesto of its identity: a group exhibition, “One for all: identity and structure” and a solo exhibition dedicated to the young Zambian artist Jack Kabangu, “The Sound of Painting”.

“One for all: identity and structure”

text by Fabio Migliorati

An exhibition that investigates the concept of identity as a shared structure, common language, and cultural memory. Through works by Carla Accardi, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Giorgio de Chirico, Abdoulaye Konaté, Esther Mahlangu, Mario Schifano, the exhibition proposes a plural narrative in which the singularity of the artists merges into a system of relations and correspondences. A reflection on art as a cognitive device, as a “destiny of style” that connects different eras, geographies, and sensibilities.

“Identity is word, path, writing. Identity is the space of each one in the progressive time of all: civilization.”
— Fabio Migliorati

“Jack Kabangu. The Sound of Painting”

text by Alessandro Romanini

The solo exhibition of Jack Kabangu (Lusaka, Zambia, 1996 – lives in Copenhagen) presents a corpus of recent works in which painting, gesture, and musical rhythm merge into a visual choreography dense with cultural references. Kabangu, a self-taught artist, puts into dialogue diasporic memory, urban mythology, ancestral symbolism, and contemporary pop languages. The result is a processual, synesthetic painting that unites the sublime and the grotesque, light and shadow, in a harmonic synthesis of opposites.

“To give physicality to dreams, sounds, words, and sensations through painting is one of my main goals.” — Jack Kabangu