{"product_id":"mark-bradford-los-angeles-long-museum-west-bund-2019","title":"Mark Bradford: Los Angeles — Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003ePromotional exhibition card \/ invitation\u003cbr\u003e12.7 × 17.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock; full-colour image to recto with exhibition information to verso\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good; light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with age and storage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for \u003cem\u003eMark Bradford: Los Angeles\u003c\/em\u003e at Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, presented from 27 July–13 October 2019. The exhibition marked Bradford's largest presentation in China at the time and brought together recent works examining the social, architectural, and psychological structures embedded in the urban landscape of Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recto reproduces a photograph of Mark Bradford seated before \u003cem\u003eFloat\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), a monumental installation of layered and stripped paper surfaces. The reverse adopts a different register entirely: a flat orange field carrying title, dates, institutional identity, and compressed exhibition text. Image on one side, administration on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBradford's practice emerged from processes of accumulation and removal, frequently using merchant posters, billboard fragments, maps, and paper residue sourced from the city itself. By the late 2010s these materials had become less descriptive than structural — abstraction carrying social information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an object, the card functions as a temporary support for movement and entry. Part image carrier, part institutional announcement. A retained exhibition trace from a larger architecture of display and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53568840204626,"sku":"BRADFORD-LONGMUS-INV-2019","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bradford_Mark._Show_invite_Los_Angeles_._2019_front.jpg?v=1779735575","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/mark-bradford-los-angeles-long-museum-west-bund-2019","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}