Each has a distinct demeanour, but they all extend their right hand, in a diplomatic gesture of friendship. The ?gures, one per postcard, wear clothes that incorporate the colours and shapes of their national flags. In addition, Ikon presented a new series, entitled La Haute Diplomatie (High Diplomacy), which comprised 193 colourful drawings that portrayed individuals who personified all the countries of the world. There is a modesty, of medium and subject matter, foiled by a philosophical ambition that is conveyed by the umbrella titles: Connaissance du monde (Knowledge of the World), Le Musee du Visage Africain (The Museum of African Faces), Alphabet and Vision.
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His various series involve hundreds and hundreds of pieces, drawings that are like diary entries, countless observations on everyday life. More generally, they convey a need to know how we know the most familiar things not just a question of communication, but how our communication determines our understanding.īy accumulation, Bouabrés work acquires its strength and gravity. After all, the earth is humanity. Also there are pictures of hunting traps, clouds, rocks, gold weights and kola nuts, very loaded from a West African point of view. As he explains: I usually depict men and women. They are exquisite, symbolic cartoons, drawn inballpoint and coloured pencils. He makes thousands of postcard-sized drawings, graphic images bordered by upper-case texts that categorise and date them. Frédéric Bruly Bouabrés practice is encyclopedic, aspiring to the depiction of everything, a means of apprehending and communicating the way the world works.
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