Amoako Boafo: what could possibly go wrong, if we tell it like it is W. Somerset Maugham Museo degli Innocenti

Museo degli Innocenti

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I focused mostly on Greek vessels as well as some Oceanic and African objects

straddling the realms of commercial fine art and producing portraits that became icons of the twentieth century

revealing Warhol as a gimlet-eyed history painter with an inimitably deadpan approach to the intersection of power

Amoako Boafo: what could possibly go wrong, if we tell it like it is W. Somerset Maugham Museo degli InnocentiThis book was published on the occasion of Amoako Boafo: what could possibly go wrong, if we tell it like it is, a two part exhibition at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, and dot. ateliers, Accra, an art space and residency established by the artist in Ghana in 2022. The exhibition showcased Boafos striking large scale portraits of his friends, those he admires, and himself, which he creates using both a brush and his fingertips. With the