Amoako Boafo - Wired: Online Auction London Monday, April 15, 2024 | Phillips

Wired: Online Auction

15 - 24 April 2024

  • Provenance

    Galerie Fortuna, Vienna
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Amoako Boafo

    Amoako Boafo’s work questions contemporary misunderstandings of blackness by contrasting personal and structural perceptions and portrayals of black people. His heavily expressionistic and sensitive portraits of friends and acquaintances highlight their self-perception and beauty while challenging the misconceptions of blackness that objectify and dehumanize black people. Often depicting his sitters with animated lucidity against vibrant, monochromatic backgrounds, Boafo asks for understanding of the diversity and complexity of blackness in spite of the frequently negative representations of black people in media and culture. Though born in Accra, Ghana, he now lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

     
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Property from a Private Collection

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Amoako Boafo

Dipo Girls

signed and dated 'Amoako Boafo 12' lower right; signed and titled 'AMOAKO BOAFO 'DIPO GIRLS'' on the reverse
oil, plastic and thread collage on fabric
60.4 x 89.9 cm (23 3/4 x 35 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2012.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 ‡

Sold for £19,050

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Wired: Online Auction

15 - 24 April 2024