Big Bear Artist Wins Turner Prize
It was the man in the bearsuit who won it: Mark Wallinger, 48, has been awarded the Turner prize, Britain’s top contemporary-art award, twelve years after his first nomination, when he lost out to Damien Hirst. Wallinger’s film “Sleeper,” 154 minutes of footage of him wandering around a deserted German gallery disguised as a bear (pictured), but recognizable by his very particular gait, has baffled and entranced visitors to the Turner prize exhibition in Liverpool.
