KIJNO POETRY

In 1986, Kijno declared: “I spent my youth stealing light from the pockets of poets. It was perhaps for me, the son of an immigrant, the only way to survive in a world whose horror of violence I already felt in my deepest self. I was literally suffocating from...

BéThune 2024

Tribute to Ladislas Kijno From Pebble to Stars March 23 – August 4, 2024   The Urban Community of Béthune-Bruay, Artois Lys Romane, the city of Béthune, and the Bina Endowment Fund are pleased to announce for spring-summer 2024, the largest retrospective of...

Malou

“The people who have had the greatest impact on you? …my wife, […] who holds my life together…” Ladislas Kijno 1921 Malou was born on October 27, 1921 in Miliana, ALGERIA. She has a sister, Marie-Joseph, nicknamed Jobic. While the...

Travels

“Isn’t the great revelation of painting the revelation of those places, that one wouldn’t seek if one hadn’t already found them? One must be where one ought to be” Kijno – 1985 Numa Hambursin June 2017 Sitting cross-legged on my...