The work of Frédéric Bruly Bouabre, immense, complex and simple is as a bing bang. It is an exponential way of reconstruction of the original shape.
Outside any system, Bouabre returns us originally by compiling the poetic and material processings of the world. Since its vision of March 11th, 1948, Bouabre understood that his poet's role was to reveal the material.
Bouabre is Nadro, the one who does not forget. He is a poet, a writer; storyteller, researcher, inventor; elevator, revelation; religious, pacifist thinker; teacher, archivist, "follower of scientism"; draftsman, artist; the last one of the encyclopaedists.
He created a genesis, a complete universe from what he observes and raises; it is the mission of his life. He lives things. He takes things in the universe and also in him.
Bouabre is a co-born being. Things are born in a new way with him, as him nait with things; he progresses with things as things progress with him.
Bouabre knows how to read everything and his appetite of knowledges has an equal only the unlimitedness of Africa, world and to stars.
Bouabre educates the history which begins with the paper and offers us the signs which begin the world. If to name is to reveal an absence, to draw and to poetize, it is to exceed the reality. Everything Bouabre in the responsibility for being. By revealing the material, he reveals the man.
René Char writes: " that a key is your house ".
Bouabre he, has the key of the world and offers us the most beautiful fruits of the earth.
Bouabre is very old today and every day still, he settles down to his encyclopaedist's desk, seized one of his small cards, draws a frame with a pen and places the small yellow sun in the coloured pencil - he does not forget - and raises a cloud, label on fruits, advertising, imprint on the ground, task of the fate « … On March 27th » - all these drawings are dated in the daytime - he writes on the card: « today, I did not draw. Drawn on March 27th, 2010 ». He is not nevertheless on holidays [... ] +

The work of Frédéric Bruly Bouabre, immense, complex and simple is as a bing bang. It is an exponential way of reconstruction of the original shape.
Outside any system, Bouabre returns us originally by compiling the poetic and material processings of the world. Since its vision of March 11th, 1948, Bouabre understood that his poet's role was to reveal the material.
Bouabre is Nadro, the one who does not forget. He is a poet, a writer; storyteller, researcher, inventor; elevator, revelation; religious, pacifist thinker; teacher, archivist, "follower of scientism"; draftsman, artist; the last one of the encyclopaedists.
He created a genesis, a complete universe from what he observes and raises; it is the mission of his life. He lives things. He takes things in the universe and also in him.
Bouabre is a co-born being. Things are born in a new way with him, as him nait with things; he progresses with things as things progress with him.
Bouabre knows how to read everything and his appetite of knowledges has an equal only the unlimitedness of Africa, world and to stars.
Bouabre educates the history which begins with the paper and offers us the signs which begin the world. If to name is to reveal an absence, to draw and to poetize, it is to exceed the reality. Everything Bouabre in the responsibility for being. By revealing the material, he reveals the man.
René Char writes: " that a key is your house ".
Bouabre he, has the key of the world and offers us the most beautiful fruits of the earth.
Bouabre is very old today and every day still, he settles down to his encyclopaedist's desk, seized one of his small cards, draws a frame with a pen and places the small yellow sun in the coloured pencil - he does not forget - and raises a cloud, label on fruits, advertising, imprint on the ground, task of the fate « … On March 27th » - all these drawings are dated in the daytime - he writes on the card: « today, I did not draw. Drawn on March 27th, 2010 ». He is not nevertheless on holidays of the world; to write naturally, it is to draw the track, this day there, of him in the world.
Bouabre is a visionary, Bouabre is a monument. On March 27th, 2010, Bouabre gives us the sign, maybe the most learned of a beginning of the world and the whole history.
André Magnin
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