Visions d'un Soleil

Visions d’un Soleil is a remarkable and cohesive suite of eight original drawings by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, each measuring approximately 13 x 17 cm. Executed in the artist’s iconic style—marked by a naïve graphic clarity, bold hand-drawn borders, and symbolic central imagery—this collection visualizes a metaphysical experience central to Bouabré’s spiritual cosmology. Each drawing represents a different “masked sun” (soleil masqué), rendered in a distinct color: red, violet, white, black, green, blue, yellow, and a second variation of white, dated uniformly on the 24th and 25th of February 1984. Together, they form a meditative cycle that explores the multiplicity of cosmic energy, perception, and divine presence, a recurring theme in Bouabré’s work.
 

The stylized solar faces, each framed by a geometric ring of color and expressive in their serene, closed-eye demeanor, evoke a sense of celestial introspection. As with much of Bouabré’s oeuvre, these works are drawn on found cardboard with colored pencil and ballpoint pen, combining the humble materiality of everyday objects with transcendent subject matter. Signed on the front and accompanied by handwritten titles and dates, each piece becomes both image and text—an artwork and a record of revelation. Visions d’un Soleil exemplifies Bouabré’s lifelong commitment to documenting visions, universal knowledge, and symbolic truths through an intuitive, self-invented visual language that bridges the earthly and the spiritual.

Visions d'un Soleil: 8 original drawings on card board (vinyl sleeves), 17 x 23 cm, hand signed by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré.