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Art Basel | Miami Beach

Current event
5 - 8 December 2019
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Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach, FL 33139

Mariane Ibrahim is delighted to announce its inaugural booth at the 2019 edition of Miami Art Basel. The gallery will present a solo-exhibition of new works by Amoako Boafo. 

Boafo’s portrait paintings are enticing in their lucidity, accentuating the figures in each work, who are regularly isolated on single color backgrounds, their gaze the focal point of each work.  The brushstrokes are thick and gestural, the contours of the body’s almost soften into abstraction. The most well known of his series, the Black Diaspora portraits serve as a means of celebration of his identity and blackness.

Boafo emphasizes, “The primary idea of my practice is representation, documenting, celebrating and showing new ways to approach blackness.” Much of his work is inspired by his upbringing, commenting on how males are raised to be aggressive and masculine, which he challenges in his works. Although the artists underlying messages are quite intense, there is a certain softness to the works as a whole, the poses are serene and the skin luminous.

 

 

Nova sector: Booth N05

 

Private Day (by invitation only)

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 11am to 8pm

Vernissage (by invitation only)
Thursday, December 5, 2019, 11am to 3pm

Public Days
Thursday, December 5, 2019, 3pm to 8pm
Friday, December 6, 2019, 12 noon to 8pm
Saturday, December 7, 2019, 12 noon to 8pm
Sunday, December 8, 2019, 12 noon to 6pm

  • Art Basel | Miami Beach

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