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Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, also known as Cheik Nadro (11 March 1923 – 28 January 2014),[1] was an Ivorian artist.

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Born	11 March 1923 Zépréguhé, Ivory Coast
Died	28 January 2014(2014-01-28) (aged 90) Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Nationality	Ivorian
Known for	Drawings

Life and career

Bouabré was born in Zépréguhé, Ivory Coast, and was among the first Ivorians to be educated by the French colonial government. On 11 March 1948, he received a vision, which directly influenced much of his later works. Bouabré created many of his hundreds of small drawings while working as a clerk in various government offices. These drawings depicted many different subjects, mostly drawn from local folklore; some also described his own visions. All the drawings are part of a larger cycle, titled World Knowledge. Bouabré also created a 448-letter, universal Bété syllabary, which he used to transcribe the oral tradition of his people, the Bétés. His visual language is portrayed on some 1,000 small cards using ballpoint pens and crayons, with symbolic imagery surrounded by text, each carrying a unique divinatory message and comments on life and history.[2]

Many of Bouabré's drawings are in The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Meshac Gaba. One of his emblematic drawings is saved in the L'appartement 22 collection on the African continent: "Une divine peinture relevée sur le corps d'une mandarine jaunie", made by Bouabré in 1994 in Abidjan.

Exhibitions

• 2022: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound, Museum of Modern Art, New York[3]
• 2013: Venice Biennale, Italy
• 2012: Inventing the world: the artist as citizen, Biennale Bénin, Cotonou, Bénin
• 2010–2011: Tate Modern, London, UK
• 2010: African Stories, Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech
• 2007: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
• 2007: Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
• 2006: 100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
• 2005: Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, France
• 2004–2007: Africa Remix, the touring show started on 24 July 2004 at the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf (Germany), and travelled to the Hayward Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
• 2003: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Musée Champollion, Figeac, France
• 2002: Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
• 2001–2002: The Short Century was an exhibition held in Munich, Berlin, Chicago and New York, organised by a team headed by Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor
• 1996: Neue Kunst aus Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germania
• 1995: Galerie des Cinq Continents, Musée des arts d’Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris, France
• 1995: Dialogues de Paix, Palais des Nations, Geneve, Switzerland
• 1994: Rencontres Africaines, the touring exhibition was shown at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, Cidade do Cabo in Sud Africa, Museum Africa in Johannesburg and in Lisbon, Portugal
• 1994: World Envisioned, together with Alighiero Boetti, the exhibition hwas shown in DIA Center for the Arts in New York and American Center, Paris, France
• 1993: Trésor de Voyage, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
• 1993: Azur, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Jouy-en-Josas, France
• 1993: La Grande Vérité: les Astres Africains, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France
• 1993: Grafolies, Biennale d’Abidjan in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
• 1992: A Visage Découvert, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Jouy-en-Josas, France
• 1992: Oh Cet Echo!, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
• 1992: Out of Africa, Saatchi Collection, London
• 1992: L'Art dans la Cuisine, St. Gallen, Sweden
• 1992: Resistances, Watari-Um for Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
• 1991: Africa Hoy/Africa Now, the touring exhibition has shown in Centro de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), Gröninger Museum in Groningen (Netherlands), Centro de arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
• 1989: Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou and Grande halle de la Villette, Paris, France
• 1989: Waaah! Far African Art, Courtrai, Belgium
• 1986: L'Afrique e la Lettre, Centre Culturel Français, Lagos, Nigeria

See also

• Bété alphabet
• Bété languages
• Contemporary African Art
• Culture of Côte d'Ivoire

References

• Bio from the National Museum of African Art
• L'appartement 22 Collection in Rabat and exhibition .
• Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, On ne compte pas les étoiles (Editions Bordessoules, 1989). ISBN 2-905735-12-0

Galleries

• Kyo Noir - Contemporary African Art Investment
• African Contemporary | Contemporary African Art Gallery
• Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: A childlike world of goodness and colour^{[dead link]} -
• Richard Dorment, "Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: A childlike world of goodness and colour" (review), Daily Telegraph, 4 September 2007.

Further reading

• Raw Vision, Sarah Lombardi, Issue 69, 2010

На других языках

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[de] Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (* 1923 in Zéprégüé, Elfenbeinküste; † 28. Januar 2014 in Abidjan, Elfenbeinküste[1]) war ein ivorischer Dichter und Maler, der in Abidjan lebte.[2]

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- [en] Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

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[fr] Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré est un artiste ivoirien né le 11 mars 1923 à Zéprégühé dans la région de Daloa et mort le 28 janvier 2014 à Abidjan[1]. Dessinateur et poète, il est aussi l'inventeur de l’écriture bété, une écriture spécifiquement africaine pour sauver de l'oubli la culture du peuple bété.

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[ru] Брюли-Буабре, Фредерик

Фредерик Брюли Буабре (Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, 1923, Кот-д'Ивуар — 26 января 2014, Абиджан, Кот-д'Ивуар) — ивуарийский художник.

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