Mark Bradford: Tears of a TreeJan 31, 2015 - May 3, 2015
- Venue:
- Rockbund Art Museum (20 Huqiu Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai)
- Curator:
- Clara M Kim
- Artist:
- Mark Bradford
- Organizer:
- Rockbund Art Museum
- Support:
- Rockbund
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The Rockbund Art Museum is pleased to present the first major museum exhibition in Asia of the celebrated Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford. Commissioned specifically for this presentation, three monumental collage paintings will fill each of the gallery floors of the museum. These exuberant new works titled The Tears of a Tree, Falling Horses and Lazy Mountain are inspired by the artist’s visits to Shanghai and what he found to be the dynamic melding of disparate cultures, economies and functions in the city—the sprawl, heavy industry, old port city, the French Quarter, and the glamour of the nouveau riche.
Coming across old colonial era maps of Shanghai at a local market, the artist became interested in the partitioning of the city during the international zone period; the changes to the Chinese address system under the imposed Japanese system; as well as the pre-industrialization landscape of the city—in other words, the mapping and remapping of the city, and the molding and remolding of the physical landscape over many decades. The paintings are informed by this context, and the massive change in the urban landscape that he witnessed in the two visits he made over the last five years.
Each of the 12-meter long paintings, created by the nuanced layering and removal of paper, will be installed in RAM’s galleries which will be stripped down in its architecture, exposing the windows of the building normally covered up to create an enclosed white cube. This simple gesture, conceived by the artist as part of the installation, will not only bring daylight into the space but will create a physical and symbolic connect into the city, bridging Bradford’s art with RAM’s early 20th century building and the waterfront of the Bund—the historic center of the former British and American concession.
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Mark Bradford / The Tears of a Tree (detail)
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Mark Bradford / Lazy Mountain(detail)
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Mark Bradford / The Tears of a Tree (detail)
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Mark Bradford / The Loop of Deep Waters 1
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Mark Bradford / The Loop of Deep Waters 8
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Mark Bradford / Falling Horses
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Mark Bradford / Lazy Mountain
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Mark Bradford / The Tears of a Tree
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Mark Bradford / Falling Horses(detail)
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