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Frédéric Bruly Bouabré DIA Beacon From 19 December 2026 New York
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In the mid-1970s, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré began combining text and image to create encyclopedic, postcard-size drawings, leading to a body of work known as Connaissance du Monde (Knowledge of the World) (1987–2014). This exhibition features a wide selection of works on paper by the artist, providing insight into his vast, open-ended life work.

The drawings contemplate themes as broad as the natural world, aesthetics, liberty, cosmology, and form through quotidian visual recordings of wide-ranging subjects, from animals, tools, and hunting traps to the pyramids and abstract markings on kola nuts. Continued until the artist’s death, these taxonomic works demonstrate Bouabré’s abiding preoccupation with the intersections between language and systems of knowledge, informed by transcribing the daily life of his Bété community in relation to broader linguistic and epistemological frameworks. The drawings on view mark Dia’s first acquisition and second presentation of Bouabré’s oeuvre—the first being a joint exhibition with Alighiero e Boetti at Dia Center for the Arts, New York, in 1994–95.

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About the Gallery

DIA Beacon is a renowned contemporary art museum situated in Beacon, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. Housed in a repurposed 1929 Nabisco box printing factory, its expansive galleries and minimalist architecture make it a destination for lovers of postwar art and industrial design.

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3 Beekman Street
Beacon
New York
United States
Opening Hours
January–March
Friday–Monday 11 am–4 pm

April–October
Thursday–Monday 11 am–6 pm

November–December
Thursday–Monday 11 am–4 pm
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New York 3 Beekman Street, Beacon
DIA Beacon contemporary art institution in New York United States
DIA Beacon
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, New York, United States
+1 845 440 0100
http://www.diaart.org

Opening hours
January–March
Friday–Monday 11 am–4 pm

April–October
Thursday–Monday 11 am–6 pm

November–December
Thursday–Monday 11 am–4 pm
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