Kitoko

Born in 1963, lives in Kinshasa.

For the love of nature. This is in a few words how the artistic approach of Kitoko (beautiful in Lingala), a predestined name, can be summed up.

Kitoko presents himself as a plastic artist in love with nature and concerned about the protection of the environment. Through his works, he reminds us how much the animal being is human and a human an animal which ignores itself to the point of self-destruction.

Since his childhood, he has spent his time contemplating the animals in the Kinshasa Zoo that his father looked after. All his artistic and pictorial language is imbued with strong and colorful hues which express an anchoring in what he holds most dear: his Africa, this dear heritage destroyed by man, an unconscious which mortgages his future and that of his heirs. .

The protection of nature, the natural and indestructible links between man and animal, this is Kitoko's struggle through his works. He imagines a world where animals will be treated as equals with humans, with identical legally recognized rights, in particular the right to life, the right to have a habitat. Why would we have the right to hunt and kill an elephant because somewhere in the world of the illuminated believe in the magical power of these trunks? why man destroys the forest without worrying about its first inhabitants, its real owners? isn't it time to protect the rights of our gorilla friends and colleagues? Here are questions!