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Title:	Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound
Date:	3/13/2022 - 8/13/2022
Address:	The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
Location:	New York, NY
Hours:	10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Saturdays until 7:00 p.m.
Cost/Cover:	Free - $25
Web Page:	https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5348
Contact Info:	(212) 708-9400

Details:

The work of the Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré had a single objective: to record and transmit information about the known universe. Devoting his life to a quest for knowledge, Bouabré captured and codified subjects from a range of sources, including cultural traditions, folklore, religious and spiritual belief systems, philosophy, and popular culture. “I do not work from my imagination," he once said. “I observe, and what I see delights me.” The first survey of Bouabré’s work, and the first exhibition at MoMA devoted to an Ivorian artist, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound spans the artist’s immense production from the 1970s until his death in 2014. A highlight of the exhibition is the Alphabet Bété—Bouabré’s invention of the first writing system for the Bété people, an ethnic group in present-day Côte d’Ivoire to which the artist belonged.