10,000 visitors, up from 7,000 in previous editions, are expected at the 14th edition of Pool Art Fair Guadeloupe, to be held from June 23 to 25, 2023 at the Pointe-à-Pitre port cruise terminal from 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The opening will take place on Thursday June 22 from 4:00 pm.
This year, Frère Independent will be honoring the Ivory Coast, and especially Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. The African artist, who died in 2014, left his mark on the art world. “The Musée d’Art Moderne in the city of Paris reserved the entrance wall for him on the occasion of his death. Closer to home, curator Naima Chomereau Lamotte directed the exhibition “Autour de Frédéric Bruly Bouabré” the same year at the T&T Art Contemporain gallery in Jarry. This exhibition brought together some one hundred works by artists from Guadeloupe, New York, Paris, Japan and elsewhere. Jean-Philippe Aka Boussou, a specialist in contemporary African art, will be coming from Paris to present his work”, says the organizing association.
In addition to this tribute to the wise Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, several events will include the programme of Guadeloupe’s largest contemporary art fair: conference-debates, group exhibition “Black Market”, “Night with the Museums” in partnership with a dozen cultural venues in Pointe-à-Pitre, “Médiation” or the presentation of artists to the public with a text written by an art critic, creative workshops for children, school visits etc.
Some fifty artists – most of them from Guadeloupe or from elsewhere but living in the archipelago – will be presenting their work to visitors over the three days.
