FRÉDÉRIC BRULY BOUABRÉ |  Cosmogonies

edited by Cristina Costanzo

Rice . Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palermo

Via Vittorio Emanuele, 365, Palermo

Finissage Saturday 10 June, at 6.00 pm

On Saturday, June 10, 2023, at 6:00 PM, the Riso Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palermo will host the closing ceremony of the exhibition Frédéric Bruly Bouabré | Cosmogonie, the first solo exhibition in Sicily by one of the founding fathers of contemporary art in Africa, curated by Cristina Costanzo and coordinated by Maddalena De Luca.

"We are delighted to host the final chapter of this exhibition," said Maddalena De Luca, Director of the Riso Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palermo, "which is in keeping with the Museum's programming. With his works, Bouabré seems to have archived the culture of the Bété community. All the postcards are surrounded by captions that allow us to discover the incredible world the artist wished to share with us... Bouabré's art, his encyclopedic collection Connaissance du monde, is stimulating, in this sense, and suggests interesting avenues for research and critical interpretation."

"We are delighted with the critical and public success of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré | Cosmogonie," said curator Cristina Costanzo, "the result of the synergy with a high-profile scientific committee and the Embassy of Côte d'Ivoire in Italy. The closing ceremony will provide a further opportunity to share the exhibition project, featuring a guided tour of the works and the presentation of the catalog. Building worlds from language is the key to understanding the work of an extraordinary artist, whose work, from the 1990s to 2008, is on display at the Riso Museum in Palermo. The exhibition offers a glimpse into his imagination through a selection of installations of various formats, oriented towards a fascinating verbal-visual component, a fundamental stylistic feature of his career, which focuses on literature, the visual arts, and beyond."

On the occasion of the exhibition's closing, a guided tour will be conducted by curator Cristina Costanzo (researcher in Contemporary Art History at the University of Palermo), and the bilingual catalogue in Italian and English, published by Palermo University Press, will also be presented. It features critical essays by HE Samuel Ouattara, Maddalena De Luca, Cristina Costanzo, Michele Cometa, Emmanuelle Spiesse, and Giulia Campanella.

The exhibition project, promoted by the 091 Art Project gallery and sponsored by the Embassy of Côte d'Ivoire in Italy.