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M+, Hong Kong. Museum purchase and gift of Honus Tandijono, 2016, © Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford 馬克．布拉福
Circus 馬戲團
2014
Mark Bradford’s Circus is a mixed-media painting that reflects the artist’s interest in different social conditions that exist within urban environments. The painting was created following Bradford’s visit to Hong Kong in 2014, and is built of multiple layers of architectural drawings, renderings of public housing, and maps of the city, repeatedly incised, refilled, and sanded down to create a complex multi-hued relief. The grid-like composition is a quasi-abstract image that resembles the dense urban structure of Hong Kong; patterns emerge from fiery streaks of reds and yellows, and smaller blocks of light blues and vibrant greens recall the outlines of the city’s windows or balconies. In a monumental ode to the city, Bradford maps a social topography that examines the fractured urban landscape of one of the most densely populated places in the world, and calls attention to the city’s ongoing crisis of public housing.
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