MARCO Cassani

光泉 Space – Lucie Fontaine’s Tokyo satellite – is happy to introduce the work of Marco Cassani.

“AFFECT/AFFECTION. Neither word denotes a personal feeling (sentiment in Deleuze and Guattai). L’affect (Spinoza’s affectus) is an ability to affect and be affected. It is a prepersonal intensity corresponding to the passage from one experiential state of the body to another and implying an augmentation or diminution in that body’s capacity to act. L’affection (Spinoza’s affection) is each such state considered as an encounter between the affected body and a second, affecting, body […].”*

Over the last two years the artist engaged with several sex workers in location such as Bali, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Bangkok, Phnom Penh and paid them to portrait him. One example of this series, currently consisting of more than 100 drawings, is displayed in 光泉 Space’s “tokonoma” [床の間], which is a niche, a built-in recessed space – located in the tatami room of Japanese traditional private residences – in which items for artistic appreciation are traditionally displayed.

Born in 1981 in Milan, Cassani currently lives in Bali. He studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and graduated in 2006.

光泉 Space is open only by appointment and organizes seasonal projects.

光泉 Space
1-23-3 Kitazawa,
Setagaya-ku
Tōkyō-to
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*Brian Massumi, “Notes on the Translation and Acknowledgements,” in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987): xvi.