BOOK: Richard Wright-Gagosian Publications

A monograph on Richard Wright, is surveying works made between 2010 and 2020. The book documents projects made for both well-known public spaces and otherwise inaccessible private residences around the world.Wright is known for large-scale and site-specific, but often temporary, painted and applied metal-leaf installations that invest architectural spaces with new optical and associative complexity. Shifting between illusionism and abstraction, his projects alter the viewer’s perception and understanding of space. Incorporating graphic and decorative elements, they allude to Renaissance and Minimalist painting, Baroque ornamentation and Constructivist tile patterns, commercial image making and organic contour lines. In his works on paper, Wright also employs ink drawing, gilding, printmaking, and watercolor painting techniques. Among the many works pictured and discussed in the new book are Wright’s permanent installations at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; Queen’s House, London; and Tottenham Court Road station (Elizabeth Line), London. The book also documents almost all of the works on paper that Wright has made over the past decade. Significantly, the publication functions as an important record of many temporary works that no longer exist.-Dimitris Lempesis