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  • Amoako Boafo Earring (Yellow Gold), Earring (Green), Earring (Red), 2020 Signed, dated and numbered [Amoako M. Boafo King 2020] Lithograph... Amoako Boafo Earring (Yellow Gold), Earring (Green), Earring (Red), 2020 Signed, dated and numbered [Amoako M. Boafo King 2020] Lithograph... Amoako Boafo Earring (Yellow Gold), Earring (Green), Earring (Red), 2020 Signed, dated and numbered [Amoako M. Boafo King 2020] Lithograph...
    Amoako Boafo
    Earring (Yellow Gold), Earring (Green), Earring (Red), 2020
    Signed, dated and numbered [Amoako M. Boafo King 2020]
    Lithograph on paper
    40 1/8 x 30 3/4 in
    102 x 78 cm
    Editions of 12 plus 2 artist's proofs 
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    • Amoako Boafo, Self Portrait (Yellow), 2020
      Amoako Boafo, Self Portrait (Yellow), 2020
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    • Amoako Boafo, Self portrait (Pink), 2020
      Amoako Boafo, Self portrait (Pink), 2020
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  • My work is about documenting the beautiful lives around me who have not had the honour of being included in art history. Also, about portraying blackness in new ways. My work is not necessarily about building an archive of human expression, but it captures that also, because portraiture depicts a lot more than just the human expressions.

    -Amoako boafo

  • Regarded as a notable young voice in art of the African diaspora, Amoako Boafo has emphasized new approaches to the...

    Regarded as a notable young voice in art of the African diaspora, Amoako Boafo has emphasized new approaches to the “representation, documentation, and celebration of Blackness.” 

     

    Within his vibrant portraits, the figures’ are the only factors in the painting to formally analyze. Viewers have to pay attention to them, their posture, what they are wearing, and the stroke of their skin, to understand the doughty statements Boafo presents. His subjects are often fitted within the frame of the canvas, just as his signature is squeezed within a small box; a technique popularized by major figurative painters such as Egon Schiele. The framing devices serve as a reminder that these portraits are condensed and there is more to them then what is restricted by the painter’s material.  

     

    Boafo studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. In 2017 was awarded with the jury prize, Walter Koschatzky Art Prize. Widely collected by private and public collectors and institutions, most recently by CCS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art,  The Albertina Museum Vienna, and the Rubell Museum.

  • A PROPOS D’IDEM PARIS

    Idem Paris est l’une des plus anciennes imprimeries et l’une des seules à encore utiliser les techniques traditionnelles de la lithographie. Elle est aujourd’hui dédiée à des artistes contemporains tels que Sophie Calle, JR, William Kentridge, Karl Lagerfeld, David Lynch, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Serra et bien d'autres.

     

    Construit en 1881 par l’imprimeur Eugène Dufrenoy, l’atelier situé au 49 rue de Montparnasse a été créé pour installer les presses lithographiques de Dufrenoy. Comprenant deux étages sur une superficie de de 1.400 m2, l’atelier a démarré son activité avec des machines plates du XIXe siècle fonctionnant à l’aide de courroies entraînées par des arbres à hélice et une chaudière à vapeur qui servait à fournir de l’énergie aux machines. 

     

    Les locaux ont ensuite été occupés par l’imprimerie Michard, spécialisée dans la création d'éditions spéciales de cartes aux couleurs vives. En 1976, l’atelier tombe finalement entre les mains de Fernand Mourlot et devient une imprimerie d'art. Le duo de frères et artisans a participé au renouveau de la lithographie et a commencé à travailler en étroite collaboration avec des artistes tels que Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall et bien d’autres artistes du XXe siècle. La société Mourlot est désormais connue sous son nom actuel, Idem Paris.