Camden Art Centre becomes a canvas for Richard Wright

Richard Wright exhibitions are always an event. Exciting, ephemeral moments in time, they engage directly with their setting, bringing the unseen quirks of a space into focus. His new solo exhibition at Camden Art Centre in London, running from 16 April until 22 June, is no different. Taking over the Victorian building, a fusion of 19th-century and postwar architecture, it features large-scale site-specific works painted directly onto the interior and two monumental glass panels suspended in the central atrium.

‘It is only through touching this concrete world that I can leave myself,’ he says. ‘The silence of things is disturbed into vibration. The task is not conceived, it is not understood; it is lived.’

Since winning the Turner Prize in 2009, Wright has shown across the UK and at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. At Camden, he has created new wall murals in gold leaf that transform with the natural light of the day. He employs traditional methods and practices to work leaded glass into complex geometric patterns and suspends monumental glass panels from the Victorian skylights of the so-called Central Space, casting light on every corner of the property.

Between those will be more than 50 works on paper, made from existing books and materials throughout his 30-year career.

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