Koss noir
Half togolese and brazilian , Kossi Aguessy, is a graduate in design from the prestigious Saint Martin’s College of London. He was only 17 when he decided to come to Paris and after working with Philippe Starck, he opened his own atelier.
Kossi is very close to our heart, he is a unique artist with a great imagination in terms of creativity and most importantly he has a unique vision of Art, designs and creation while always respectful of the environment that surrounds him.
For him ethics is not a vain word has it is the source of his life. He is today the only french designer being exposed permanently in the design section of the MOMA in New York. He is also exposed in Artcurial and these coming days in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou.
Il était une fois, un artiste
“I have always wanted to create with my hands, to testify the ability to reach beauty sense and balance » says the artist.
What he does is a reflection of what he is and how he sees the world surrounding him; but in Art major, dear UFFP readers.
Because Art comes from deep inside : the brain, the heart, the soul, and the result of this is the result of an incredible fusion, a pure product of a twenty first century global philosophy and lifestyle.
Kossi does not like to be considered like a designer per se, he refuses to be in a category » I refuse to be a title. Titles as disciplines, frontiers or limits don’t really matter » as he is without boundaries, he is not artist, well at least this is what he sees about himself.
But us, can judge also, and he is indeed a magician ! he is free spirited, he does not like to be in an artistic box and that why what he does is amazing, because it is left to subjectiv interpretation as beauty is in the eyes of how and why we see it » I’m not a creator; creation is around me, creation is me, not from me. I do not use a single material, formula or shape that did not come from what I do live in »
Kossi is a simple describer of his time. A little window on a future, An explorer of the past.
In reality, nothing but a bridge, a piece of a puzzle called evolution that started before him and shall continue long after » Nature teaches me this » he says
A unique vision of the World with so much poetry
» I am and think Global and I try to reset my skills and inspirations everyday as if I do not know anything .The fact is I do not know anything but this one thing:
I am a man of passion.
Passion for the world surrounding me, from the most insignificant facts and things to the visible wonders.
Passion for love and fear, passion for sciences and literature , passion for nature and culture,
Passion for the forthcoming, the present and the “has been”.
Passion for the deepness and the skin of things
Passion for what we are, where we come from and where we go.
Kossi is constantly amazed by Human History, the ancient cultures (Persian, Roman, Greek, the Ming era in China, the Yoruba or Zulu civilizations in Africa) everything mankind has built, has established.
He does not believe in rules » I believe in learning then breaking them to create wiser and better, funnier, sexier, because this is what life does, making the apparently impossible possible » !
.He believes in Man, in Mankind, in love and life.
But above all I believe in our future, that is why I do what I do and I’m what I am.
A great UFFP artist in and out please discover this amazing talent !
