Peter Doig - Contemporary Artists

Concrete Cabin

Peter Doig, Concrete Cabin The Saatchi Gallery
 

Peter Doig

Concrete Cabin

1994, Oil on Canvas

198 x 275cm

Doig’s paintings of Le Corbusier’s classic modernist apartment block offer a mysterious utopia: cosmopolitan dream architecture nestled in (or imprisoned by) tangling wilderness. In Concrete Cabin, it’s the nowhereness of the scene which is strangely uncanny: the bright minimalist grid of the building beaconing through the dark shadows of the trees; an everyday glimpse from a suburban sidewalk twisted into something magical; a set from a contemporary fable. Doig paints this scene with chimerical effect; cropping the image to exclude ground or sky, it has no physical orientation or weight, only the intangible presence of a fleeting moment.
 
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