Peter Doig

by Searle, Adrain; Scott, Kitty; Grenier, Catherine; Schneider, Hannes; Fanck, Arnold; Doig, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780714845043
• ISBN10: 0714845043
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Whether painting a mysterious bearded figure floating on a flat wash of bluer a winter landscape glimpsed through a thick web of branches, Peter Doigarnesses the materiality of his medium to create what he calls 'abstractionsf memories', distilling recollected sensations into moments of pureentience, like scenes in a series of mysterious narratives. In "Gasthof zuruldentalsperre" (2000-2) two costumed figures stand guard at a low stoneall while behind them a reservoir reflects a twinkling starry sky. The youngan bundled up against the cold in "Blotter" (1993) contemplates hiseflection in a frozen pond, while in "Red Boat (Imaginary Boys)" (2004) sixen in white shirts navigate upstream through a dense tropical landscape.oig's work has been exhibited at the world's top museums, including Theuseum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and theational Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and has been selected for contemporaryrt's most important international exhibitions, such as the SITE Santa Feiennial (2006), the Tate Triennial (2003 and 2006) and the Venice Biennale

Author Biography

Adrian Searle is Chief Art Critic at the Guardian and a regular contributor to the El Cultural supplement of El Mundo, as well as an occasional writer of fiction. He has curated exhibitions for the Hayward Gallery, London, the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Reina Sofia, Madrid. He was an early champion of Peter Doig’s work and has written on it extensively.

Kitty Scott is Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Formerly Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada (2000-6), Scott has also organized numerous exhibitions as an independent curator, including ‘Peter Doig’ for the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2001). Scott is a visiting professor on the Curatorial Practice course at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and has written for such magazines as Canadian Art, Parachute and Parkett.

Catherine Grenier is Chief Curator of the Contemporary Collections at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, where she has organized such exhibitions as ‘Los Angeles 1955-85: Birth of an art capital’ (2006), ‘Big Bang: Creation and destruction in twentieth-century art’ (2005-6) and ‘Les Années Pop’ (2001).