Mark Handforth
Red on Red, 2017
Painted aluminium
H 135 7/8 x 65 x 47 1/4 in
Photo: JC Lett
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Living in Miami for the past 20 years, Mark Handforth is deeply attached to the heritage of various American avant-garde movements from the 20th century. He makes free use of...
Living in Miami for the past 20 years, Mark Handforth is deeply attached to the heritage of various American avant-garde movements from the 20th century. He makes free use of a formal vocabulary borrowed from the Ready-Made to Minimal and/or Pop Art, confronting it with an iconography frequently derived from the urban environment. Red on Red, a monumental vivid red star with dented arms (3.45 m high) associates an icon of American culture – a star – to the cult of the automobile, with the work produced in the manner of a car body.