Richard Wright

Untitled Figure 4

About this artwork

In this image, Wright has delicately tampered with a geometric grid via a series of coloured shapes and two outstretched hands bound by rope. This work is the fourth in a portfolio of six created for the ‘Gagosian Gallery Poster Edition’. Each print was named ‘Untitled Figure’ and numbered from one to six. These prints were initially conceived as a series of posters to be pasted onto internal or external walls. Wright is best known for his temporary wall drawings which are painted over once the exhibition is finished. These works on paper are also fragile and lightweight, as curator Katrina Brown points out, ‘…they can, as Richard says, be rolled up, torn up – they are flimsy. Only when on the wall do they discover their solidity. Like the wall drawings, their hold on the world is slight.’

Updated before 2020

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Richard Wright

Richard Wright