Painter of evanescent frescoes wins U.K's top contemporary art honor
- December 07, 2009 18:26
Richard Wright seems an oddly sedate choice for a prize normally associated with the enfants terribles of conceptual art. Damien Hirst won the Turner Prize in 1995 with a pickled cow. Wright's exhibition piece at Tate Britain is a baroque-style painting in gold leaf, which progresses in geometric swirls across an entire wall. His work has the ephemeral beauty of a glistening spider's web, and is on display until Jan. 3, 2010, when it will be painted over...