Mark Wallinger wins 2007 Turner Prize (Man in Bear Suit wins Britain's top arts prize)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12/3/2007 | Nigel Reynolds

[mojito]

I guess a monkey suit wasn't good enough this year. Not "visceral" enough.

[dighton]

He was the strong favourite for the prize, not least because he was shortlisted 12 years ago but lost to Hirst’s pickled cow.

[BenLurkin]

The Sleeper. Made in 2004, it shows the artist, who was born in Chigwell, Essex, dressed in a bear suit prancing around an empty art gallery in Berlin on 10 successive nights.

Now that's "art"!

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[rfp1234]

[BGHater]

Dam, I thought Troy won the award.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3CzYw5-qdA

[Jeff Chandler]

I’m too stupid to understand art.

[Fred Nerks]

British artist Mark Wallinger is seen sitting in front of a banner, originally by the artist Banksy, of his exhibition "State Britain" at the Tate Britain art gallery in London in this January 15, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Files

[Blind Eye Jones]

The Turner prize is not named after Ted Turner, who also plays practicals jokes on the world with his CNN Network. It is named after Ezechiel Ebeneser Rachmaninoff ‘Zig’ Turner who invented the Turner Tuner to tune into alien sex cows mooing the earth while on leave from their milky way duties. Every artist in England knows this...

[mojito]

He gets your prize!

[Fred Nerks]

MY HUMBLE APOLOGIES!

[Fred Nerks]

Believe NOTHING you see - believe NOTHING you hear - believe NOTHING you read!

By using that one graphic to pose the ‘artist’ behind I was stupid enough to believe it was dependance upon oil he was protesting...GOT ME A GOOD ONE!

From the full image I later found, it’s clear what his message is. I’m eating humble pie...

[Fred Nerks]

Mummy, is that Mohammad the Teddy Bear?

[pandemoniumreigns]

"FReepers rarely look beneath the surface"

Me thinks the only thing below the surface here is the turds...((;O)

[Loyalist]

Bad art, even if the underlying political message is agreeable, is still bad art.

The people who compete for this prize have grown tiresome in their adolescent attempts to épater le bourgeois long after le bourgeois have ceased to care.

[Fred Nerks]

You’re right! I was too quick to judge. I have asked the mods to remove the comment #8

[Fred Nerks]

The people who compete for this prize have grown tiresome in their adolescent attempts to épater le bourgeois long after le bourgeois have ceased to care...

Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry

TURNER PRIZE GREATEST HITS. LINK

[Billthedrill]

He was the strong favourite for the prize, not least because he was shortlisted 12 years ago but lost to Hirst's pickled cow.

A travesty of justice!

I could never be a "conceptual" artist - I mean, if you think I'm going to make an ass of myself prancing around in a bear suit for 10 straight days all for a lousy $50,000, why, I'd...uh...hmm...where do you get a bear suit, anyhow?

[dighton]

I'd...uh...hmm...where do you get a bear suit, anyhow?

An easy fifty grand, unless in Bear Country mating season.

[piasa]

Does Grayson Perry go by the alias “Cindy Sheehan,” by any chance?