马克·布拉德福德:一棵树的眼泪

MARK BRADFORD:TEARS OF A TREE

安塞姆·弗兰克策划的双年展“社会工厂”让上海成为了探讨展览实践与地点之间关系的焦点——对于艺术家和策展人来说都是如此。此次双年展对国际的理论话语贡献良多，而不仅仅是一个本地经验的论述。洛杉矶画家马克·布拉德福德在上海外滩美术馆举办的这次个展则给出了一种令人信服的可能性：他在这座城市度过的时间虽然短暂,但他把新的和历史的原始素材成功地融入了正在创作的作品当中。

With Anselm Franke＇s Biennale, ＂Social Factory,＂ Shanghai has become a focus of thinking around how exhibi- tion practices--of both artists and curators--relate to place and site. The Biennale takes the position that exhibitions contribute more to a global theoretical discourse than to a local experiential one; the Los Angeles-based painter Mark Bradford, in his solo exhibition at the Rockbund Art Muse- um, offers a convincing alternative by using his brief time in the city to wrap new and historically novel raw material into his own ongoing work.