EDWARD WRIGHT
Edward Wright was born in 1971 in Sydney, Australia; he received his Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College in London. Reminiscent almost of the manner of the Old Masters, he focuses on a genre that has all but vanished from contemporary art: in his many large-sized individual and group pictures Wright employs the iconography of classical portraiture, but gives new meanings to his pictures through slight formal variations. What at first glance seems to be a realistic depiction of the portrayed features is in fact grotesquely exaggerated and in part a distinct parody of the human face. Edward Wright is an attentive observer of how economic, social and cultural conditions are presented in the media. His darkly enigmatic portraits expose contemporary culture where negative dispositions like cynicism and egoism have become the accepted norm. Edward Wright is based in London and Lucerne.