Curated by Rita Kersting and Anette Freudenberger
Diverse stylistic references, imagery from art and pop-cultural sources, and play with various conventions of spatial representation all feed into the precise patterns seen in Richard Wright’s paintings. Realized directly on the wall, his works involve the architecture of the space as well as its locale in a confrontation between the act of visualization and the decorative and functional status of the resultant forms. The outcome is a perverse mix, seemingly funny and aggressive, exuberant, demure, and reticently contemplative all at once. This exhibition, organized by the Kunstverein Düsseldorf’s Rita Kersting and Anette Freudenberger, marks Wright’s first large-scale institutional show. For obvious reasons it won’t travel, but it’s accompanied by a helpful catalogue.
