Amoako Boafo

Name: Amoako Boafo
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SKU: 9783753307220
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A new catalogue on the work of Ghanaian rising star Amoako Boafo, accompanying an exhibition at the Belvedere, Vienna. The Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo is considered one of the most important voices from a new generation of Black artists. Boafo portrays his friends, acquaintances and people... Read More

Format: Hardback

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A new catalogue on the work of Ghanaian rising star Amoako Boafo, accompanying an exhibition at the Belvedere, Vienna.

The Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo is considered one of the most important voices from a new generation of Black artists. Boafo portrays his friends, acquaintances and people from public life, presenting a contemporary image of Black self-empowerment and self-perception. After graduating from art college in Accra, Boafo began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2013, where he developed his signature style characterized by his unusual finger-painting technique.

The people portrayed by Boafo embody the idea of Black identity that draws on its own culture, to be understood as an act of resistance against the racist labels of a predominantly white society. The artist's intensive engagement with Black history is subtly reflected in his paintings that include motifs inspired by literary works by key pioneers of the Black Freedom Movement.

This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first exhibition staged of his work in Europe, at the Belvedere in Vienna, from October 2024 to January 2025. It features texts from the artist himself as well as British curator and writer Ekow Eshun and author of Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783753307220

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 January 2025

Country: Germany

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Illustration: 130 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Stella Rollig
Text by Ekow Eshun
Edited by Sergey Harutoonian
Text by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka
Text by Taiye Selasi
Text by Sergey Harutoonian
Text by Amoako Boafo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 300.0mm

Weight: 1000g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Amoako Boafo, +1984 in Accra (Ghana), lives and works in Accra. After studying art in Accra, Boafo studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 2013, where he developed his distinctive style, which is characterized by the unusual use of finger painting.

Stella Rollig is General Director of the Belvedere, Vienna.

Sergey Harutoonian is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Belvedere, Vienna.