Editions: Amoako Boafo

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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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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 “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.
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Idem Paris stands as one of the oldest printing houses and one of the only that still uses the traditional techniques of lithography and today dedicated to contemporary artists including Sophie Calle, JR, William Kentridge, Karl Lagerfeld, David Lynch, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Serra and many more. 

 

Built in 1881 by printer Eugene Dufrenoy, the workshop located at 49 rue de Montparnasse wascreated to install Dufrenoy’s lithographic presses. Housing two floors in 15,000 squarefeet, the workshop beganwith 19th century flat machines operated by belts driven by propeller shafts and a steam boiler that was used to provide energy for the machines.

 

The premises were later occupied by the Michard Printing Company, whichspecialized in creating special edition maps filled with vibrant colors. Finally, the workshop fell into the hands of Fernand Mourlot in 1976 and became a fine art print shop. The brother duo and craftsmenwere part of the revival of lithography and began working closely with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall and many otherartists of the 20th century. The Mourlot company is now known by its current name, Idem Paris.