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Artworks
Mark Handforth
Red on Red, 2017Painted aluminiumH 135 7/8 x 65 x 47 1/4 inPhoto: JC LettFurther images
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.
