The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection
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« Signes relevés sur des noix de cola ». Series of 70 drawings - 1990
10 x 16 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des noix de cola ». Series of 70 drawings - 1990
10 x 16 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des noix de cola ». Series of 70 drawings - 1990
10 x 15 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des noix de cola ». Series of 70 drawings - 1990
10 x 14 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des noix de cola ». Series of 70 drawings - 1991
10 x 15 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des noix de cola ». Series of 70 drawings - 1991
10 x 15 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des noix de cola ». Series of 70 drawings - 1991
9 X 15 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des noix de cola ». Series of 70 drawings - 1991
10 x 15 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des oranges ». Series of 48 drawings - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des oranges ». Series of 48 drawings - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des oranges ». Series of 48 drawings - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des oranges ». Series of 48 drawings - 1989
16 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des oranges ». Series of 48 drawings - 1989
15 x 9 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des oranges ». Series of 48 drawings - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des oranges ». Series of 48 drawings - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
« Signes relevés sur des oranges ». Series of 48 drawings - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard. Gifted to the MoMA in 2019.
Given to MoMA in 2019
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard. Gifted to the MoMA in 2019.
Given to MoMA in 2019
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard. Gifted to the MoMA in 2019.
Given to MoMA in 2019
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard. Gifted to the MoMA in 2019.
Given to MoMA in 2019
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard. Gifted to the MoMA in 2019.
Given to MoMA in 2019
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Given to MoMA in 2019
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Given to MoMA in 2019
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard. Gifted to the MoMA in 2019.
Given to MoMA in 2019
Alphabet bété - 1990-1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 449 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Given to MoMA in 2019
Connaissance du Monde - 1991
10 X 15 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1992
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1992
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and felt pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1992
3 3/4 x 6 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1992
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and felt pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1992
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil, ink and ballpoint on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1995
11 x 16 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1995
16 x 11 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1993
17 x 12 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1992
15 x 9 cm
Colored pencil, ballpoint and felt pen on carton
Given to MoMA in 2019
Connaissance du Monde - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil, ballpoint and ink on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1991
10 x 15 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil, ballpoint and felt pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1992
15 x 10 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1989
10 X 16 cm
Ballpoint on cardboard
Connaissance du Monde - 1998
10 X 15 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Connaissance du Monde - 1991
15 x 24 cm
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on carton
Extract from the book OUEST AFRICAN ALPHABET (The Bété) Ivory Coast - 1982
122 handwritten pages in English and Bété by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Musée du Visage Africain - 1991
15 x 10 cm
Series of 162 drawings
Pencil, colored pencil and ballpoint pen on cardboard
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Born in 1923, Zéprégüé, Ivory Coast
Died in 2014 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
The origin of all of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré’s work stems from a revelatory experience: on March 11, 1948, “the heavens opened up before my eyes and seven colorful suns described a circle of beauty around their Mother-Sun, I became Cheik Nadro: ‘He who does not forget.’” From then on he tackled every field of knowledge and collected his research in manuscripts about arts and traditions, poetry, tales, religion, esthetics, and philosophy, revealing himself to be an astonishing thinker, poet, encyclopedist, creator. Searching for a way to preserve and transmit the knowledge of the Bété people, as well as the knowledge of the entire world, he invented an alphabet of 448 monosyllabic pictograms to represent phonetic syllables. This endeavor earned Bouabré the legendary reputation of being another Champollion, in reference to the great scholar and linguist Jean-Paul Champollion (1790-1832), who discovered the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs. Bouabré’s alphabet, which can transcribe all human sounds, reflects the essence of his thought: to achieve universality and to unite mankind.
In the 1970s, he started to transfer his thoughts to hundreds of small drawings in postcard format, using a ballpoint pen and colour crayons. These drawings, gathered under the title of Connaissance du Monde (Knowledge of the World), form an encyclopedia of universal knowledge and experience. Other projects, such as Readings from Signs Observed in Oranges (1988), serve as visionary records of divination. For Bouabré, his drawings are representation of everything that is revealed or concealed—signs, divine thoughts, dreams, myths, the sciences, traditions—and he views his role as an artist as a redemptive calling. He has stated: “Now that we are recognized as artists, our duty is to organize into a society, and in such a way to create a framework for discussion and exchange among those who acquire and those who create. From that could arise a felicitous world civilisation.”
2022
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré – World Unbound – MoMA – NY, March 13th – August 13th, 2022
2011
The world of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré and his Object teaching, Kimmel Center Window Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis
2010-2011
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK
2010
Bon Séjour, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
African Stories, Ancienne Banque du Maroc, Marrakech, Morocco
2009
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Galerie aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, La Haute Diplomatie, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K.
2006
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Musée des Civilisations de Côtes d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2003
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Musée Champollion, Figeac – France
2002
Dany Keller Galerie, Munich - Germany
2001
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré – Acharya Vyakul, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France
1997
Musée du visage africain, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Cologne, Germany
1996
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Galeria DV, San Sebastian, Spain
1995
Mondes - Frédéric Bruly Bouabré & Alighiero e Boetti, American Center, Paris.
1995-1994
World Envisionned -Frédéric Bruly BOUABRE & Alighiero e BOETTI, Dia Center for the Arts, New-York, USA
1993
Portikus. Frédéric Bruly BOUABRE, Kunsthalle Francfort, Germany, Bern, Switzerland.
Traveled to:
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
- Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Bande-Annonce – La Collection Pigozzi à Cannes, Gare Maritime de Cannes, France
2020
Scrivere disegnando, quand la langue cherche son autre, Centre d’art contemporain Genève, in collaboration with la Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland (curated by Andrea Bellini et Sarah Lombardi)
2018-2019
Cahiers écrits, dessinés, imprimés, Fondation Bodmer, Genève, Suisse (curated by Thierry Davila and Jacques Berchtold)
Talisman in the age of difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Londres, Angleterre (curated by Yinka Shonibare)
2018
The Quarries of Imagination, Stones between Art and Artifact, Grey Cube, Intermédiatèque, Université de Tokyo, Japan
La Tempête, Centre régional d'art contemporain de Sète, France (curated by Hugues Reip)
African Passions, Palais Cadaval, Evora, Portugal (curated by André Magnin and Philippe Boutté)
Cote d'Ivoire: Identité et vitalité de l'art contemporain, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy (curated by Massimo Scaringella)
2017
Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier. Les Initiés, un choix d’œuvres (1989 – 2009) dans la collection d’art africain contemporain de Jean Pigozzi. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (04/26/17 to 04/09/17)
2016
Xu Bing Worlds of Words / Goods of Gods, Triennale de Milan, Italy
2015
ROC, La galerie du jour agnès b, Paris
La fabrique à fantasmes, Regard sur la collection du musée de Ouidah, Fondation Zinsou, Benin
Rituels, répétitions, contraintes, tentations - Plateforme Roven, Musée régional d'art contemporain du Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
Un regard sur la collection Agnès B., le LaM de Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Chinese Utopias Revisited: The Elephants, Bozar, Bruxelles, Belgium
1:54, Contemporary African Art fair, New-York, USA
The Untold Want, Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin, Irland
Le monde entier jusqu'à aujourd'hui, Villa du parc, Centre d'art contemporain, Annemasse, Switzerland
Pino Pascali, l’africano. Sirens Virginia Ryan e Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Museo Civico di Castelbuono
Drawing Now, Paris, France
Art Genève, galerie Magnin-A, Switerland
2014
Ici l’Afrique/Here Africa - L’Afrique contemporaine à travers le regard de ses artistes, Musée des Suisses dans le Monde,Château de Penthes, Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland
Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Museu Picasso, Barcelona
African way, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-bains
Hommage à Frédéric Bruly Bouabré et Okhai Ojeikere, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Une histoire, Art, Architecture et design des années 1980 à nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Fiac Officielle, Paris, France
1:54 Foire d'art contemporain africain, London
Art Genève, Switzerland
2013
The 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Dessins et oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
Four corners of the world, Hite Foundation, Séoul, South Korea
Focus sur la collection, Musée de la Fondation Zinsou, Ouidah, Benin
Mes Amours…, Bandjoun Station, Bandjoun, Cameroon
The Solo Project Art Fair – Basel, galerie Magnin-A, St Jakobshalle, Basel, Switerland
Art Paris Art Fair 2013, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Yia Art Fair, Paris, France
1:54 Foire d'art contemporain africain, London
2012/2013
Biennale Benin, Inventing the World : The Artist as Citizen
2012
Drawing Now Paris, Magnin-A, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Aujourd’hui je travaille avec mon petit fils, Aboudia, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan
The Imminence of Poetics, Sao Paulo Bienal, 30th edition, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Art Brussels, 31th Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Prism – Drawings from 1990 - 2011, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Le Monde vous appartient, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
ArtParis, Just art!, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Riad Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
La petite revue de l’art moderne et contemporain en Côte d’Ivoire, Rotonde des Arts, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2010
Artparis+guests. André Magnin & Leridon Collection, Grand Palais, Paris, France
African Stories, Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech, Morocco
Mar 5 - Aug 22
La Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
2009
Africa Arte Contemporanea, JZ Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
Against Exclusion, 3rd Biennale d’Art Contemporain, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Animal, Anima, Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Una nuova storia, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
2007/2008
Why Africa? Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Musée d’art contemporain de Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2006
100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2006
Aller / retour. L’Afrique, La Casa Encendida, Madrid - Spain
Dak’art 2006, Biennale de l‘art Africain contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
Musée des Civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2005
Attirare l’attenzione, Centre d’art contemporain, Besançon, France
2005
Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco - France
2005
African Art Now : Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston - USA
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, United States
2004 (travelling exhibition)
Africa Remix, Art contemporain d’un continent
* 24 July 2004 – 7 Nov 2004, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf - Germany
* 10 Feb 2005 – 17 April 2005, Hayward Gallery, London – England
* 15 May 2005 – 20 Aug 2005, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – France
* Feb – May 2006, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004
Les Afriques, Tri Postal, Lille, France
Je m’installeaux abattoirs !
La collection d’art contemporain d’agnès b., Les Abattoirs, Toulouse - France
2003 – 2004
L’Invention du Monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2003
Transferts, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels – Belgium
2003
Correspondances Afriques, Iwalewa-Haus, Afrikanzentrum der Universität Bayreuth - Germany
2002
Documenta 11: Platform 5, Kassel, Germany
Inauguration du Plateau, Le plateau, Paris, France
2001
Egofugal, Istanbul 7th Biennal, Turkey.
2000-2001
Voici - 100 Years of Contemporary Art, Bruxelles Fine Art Palace, Bruxelles, Belgium.
1999-2000
Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.
1999-2000
Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany.
1999-2000
Art Visionnaire/Visionary Art, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France.
1999-2000-
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
1998
Sydney Biennial (11): Everyday, Sydney, Australia
Dak’art 1998, Biennale de l‘Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
1997-1998
Johannesburg 2nd Biennal, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1997
Kwangju Biennal, Kwangju, Korea.
1996
Sydney Biennal, The Gunnery, Sydney, Australia.
Neue Kunst aus Afrika., Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
São Paulo Biennial (23): Universalis, São Paulo, Brazil
By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
1995-1996
Féminin/Masculin. Le sexe de l'art, Modern Art National Museum, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
1995
Big City, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK.
1995
Gallery of 5th Continents, Oceanian and African Art Museum, Paris, France.
1995
Dialogues de Paix/ Dialogues of Peace, Palace of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Baz’art du jour, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France
1994
Frédéric Bruly BOUABRE, Ginza Art Space, Shiseido Co Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
1994
Rencontres Africaines, Arabic World Institute, Paris, France.
Worlds Envisioned: Alighiero e Boetti and Fréderic Bruly Bouabré. Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA
1993
Grapholies, Abidjan Biennal, Ivory Coast.
1993
La Grande Vérité, les Astres Africains, Contemporary African Art Collection, Fine Art Museum -Nantes, France.
1993
Art Against AIDS, Venice Biennal, Guggenheim Museum. Venice, Italy.
Trésors de voyage/ Travel Treasures, Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy.
1992
Resistances, The Watari-Um Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
1992
Out of Africa, Saatchi Collection, London, UK.
A visage découvert, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy en Josas, France
Oh! Cet écho !, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris, France
1991-1992
Africa Hoy - Africa Now, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
- Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherland, Contemporary Art Cultural Center.
- Mexico City, Mexico.
1989
Magiciens de la Terre, National Museum of Modern Arts -M.N.A.M., Georges Pompidou Center, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound - Edited by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, 2022. Exhibition catalogue
2020
"Paris la Consciencieuse : Paris la Guideuse du monde" by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. Fac simile, Les Presses du réel, Dijon, France, in collaboration with Faro.Contemporary African Art, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Collection World of Art (2nd Edition), Thames&Hudson, London
2017
Les Initiés, un choix d’œuvres (1989 – 2009) dans la collection d’art africain contemporain de Jean Pigozzi. Editions Dilecta, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France. Catalogue d’exposition
2013
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, André Magnin, Yaya Savané, Denis Escudier. 4 bound volumes in a box set, 210 × 265 mm, 1436 pages, 611 colour drawings and app. 30 photographs. Éditions Xavier Barral, in association with the agnès b grant scheme
2014
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui, Christine Macel, texts by Claire Bishop, Okwui Enwezor and Dieter Roelstraete, Editions du Centre Pompidou, Flammarion, July 2014
2014
Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Exhibition catalogue, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, pgs 72,74,135,137-38.
2013
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, André Magnin, Yaya Savané, Denis Escudier. 4 volume set. 1436 pages. 21,1 cm x 26,5 cm. Éditions Xavier Barral, Avec le soutien du fonds de dotation agnès b. May 2013.
2011
Gradhiva n°13 Pièges à voir, pièges à penser, présences cachées dans l’image - Revue d’anthropologie et d’histoire des arts du musée du quai Branly, page 146
2010
AFRICA. OBJETOS Y SUJETOS, Exhibition catalogue, published by cajAstur
2010
ATAA OKO – FREDERIC BRULY BOUABRE
Documentaire DVD « FREDERIC BRULY BOUABRE, L’UNIVERSALISTE » , Collection de l’Art Brut/Lokomotiv films Lausanne/Le Tourne, 2010
2010
L'invention de l'écriture, Philippe Bordas, éditions Fayard
2009
Africa? una nuova storia - Exhibition catalogue, published by Gangemi Editore
2007
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, La Haute Diplomatie, Ikon Gallery, 2007
2007
Why Africa? - Exhibition catalogue. Published by Electa & Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli.
2006/2007
Africa Remix - Catalogue d’exposition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
2006
Africa Remix - Catalogue d’exposition, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
2006
100% Africa - Exhibition catalogue. Published by TF Editores & FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.
2006
L’art contemporain, histoire et géographie by Catherine Millet Champ Flammarion, 2006
2005
L’art africain contemporain, Christophe Domino, André Magnin. Editions SCALA.
2005
Arts of Africa: The Contemporary Collection of Jean Pigozzi - Exhibition catalogue. Published by Skira Edition & Grimaldi Forum Monaco.
2005
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection - Exhibition catalogue. Published by Merrell.
2004
Africa Remix - Catalogue d’exposition. Published by Hatje Cantz.
2003
Gagarin, seventh edition - Livre exclusivement sur des textes originaux des artistes. Pour moi, « l’art », c’est de savoir faire des sublimes œuvres innocentes !, pg 4. Editions GAGAvzw pour le « Municipal Academy of Fine Arts of Waasmunster »
2003
Transferts - Exhibition catalogue. Edited by Africalia.
2003
FILM « L’alphabet de Bruly Bouabré » Un film de Nurith Aviv. Production Swan Productions, ZDF/ARTE
Durée : 17'.
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. La Méthodologie de la nouvelle écriture africaine, Onestarpress, Paris, 2003
2002
Documenta 11 - Exhibition catalogue - Text by André Magnin, in German, Kassel, Germany.
2001
Cole, Herbert, M., Harris, Michael D., Poynor, Robin, Visonà, Monica Blackmun, A History of Art in Africa, Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 2001
2000
Zeitwenden - Exhibition catalogue, text by André Magnin, in German, Global Art Rheinland Edition : Dumont. France.
1999
Global Conceptualism : Points of origin, 1950s-1980s. Signs and Systems : Frédéric Bruly Bouabre, text in English. Exhibition catalogue Edited by The Queens Museum of Art, New York.
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Knowledge of the world, Nexus Press, Atlanta, USA
1998
1996
Contemporary Art of Africa
Text in English by Alighiero e Boetti.
Edited by André Magnin and Jacques Soulillou.
Published by Harry N. Abraams.
1996
Sao-Paulo 23rd Biennal
Interview by Etienne Féau. Text in English.
Exhibition catalogue.
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Galería DV, San Sebastián 1996
1995
MAAO
ITW Frédéric Bruly Bouabre by Etienne Féau, text in French
The 5th Continents Gallery, Paris.
1995
Worlds Envisioned
Lynne COOKE, André MAGNIN.
Exhibition catalogue.
DIA Center for the Arts, New-York.
1994
Book›: La Légende de Domin et Zézê
Introduction by Denis Escudier, texts in French, 200 pages.
Ed. Hazan - Revue Noire, Paris.
1994
Revue Noire, March-April-May, 1994, pg 12
1993
Book›: Frédéric Bruly BOUABRE
Texts in German, 200 pages.
Curator: André MAGNIN, Kasper KONIG, Ulrich LOOCK, Wolfger POHLMANN
Editions BRAUS, Heidelberg, Germany.
1993
Retrospective of Frédéric Bruly Bouabre, exhibition catalogue.
Frankfurt, Bern, Berlin & Aachen, Germany.
1991
Der öffentliche Blick
" L'art ou l'Esthetique " by Frédéric Bruly Bouabre, text in French p.75-91.
Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munchen und die Autoren.
1989
Magiciens de la Terre
Curators: Jean-Hubert MARTIN, Mark FRANCIS, Aline LUQUE, André MAGNIN
Exhibition catalogue, text in French p. 108 & 109.
1989
On ne compte pas les étoiles
By Frédéric Bruly BOUABRE
Georges Pompidou Center
Exhibition catalogue.
1989
Frédéric Bruly BOUABRE
Auto-biographical book
Inroduction by Denis ESCUDIER
Editions Bordessoules.
Saint-Jean d'Angély, France.
1986
Africa and the Written word
The Strange case of the Bété script. Bilingual texte French-English.
French Cultural Center, Lagos.
Introduction by Jacques Soulillou. Editions Karthala, Paris.
